Word: lurked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dreams of escape spark men's hearts the world over. Wherever discontent and fear and fancied oppression lurk-and that in some measure is always everywhere-men yearn to escape and are stopped by the ugly question: Where? For those behind the world's iron curtains, the urge is stronger. Their fears are seldom without foundation and their path of escape is clear: it lies just over the border...
...cabodos (rubber-tree tappers and Brazil-nut gatherers) who live along tributaries of the Amazon, the Caiapó Indians are bad medicine. Savage and naked, they lurk in the jungle until the men in caboclo settlements leave for the day's work. Then they swoop down, killing everyone but the girls, whom they kidnap. If they meet resistance, they fire thatched huts with flaming arrows, like Sioux attacking a covered-wagon train. Says an old trader: "The best thing to do when you see a Caiapó is to shoot first...
According to latest government estimates, 8,000-10,000 Huk guerrillas still lurk in the Philippine hills, and enough more are joining them each day to make up for those captured or surrendered. Defense Secretary Magsaysay hopes that he can lick the Huk problem "in maybe five years." But fighting Huks-as well as giving them land-is expensive. "Only God knows," says the Secretary, "whether our government can spend $89 million every year for five years and still live...
Categorical Imperative. Vis-à-vis Japan, there were variations of misunderstanding. The Japanese were "polite, industrious little people" until Pearl Harbor, brutal savages until V-J day, have been enthusiasts for democracy since. Warns Maurer: beneath surface "democratization" lurk the fixed feudal habits of centuries. A good Quaker by faith, and no Cassandra, Herrymon Maurer believes the West can retrieve its errors if it recognizes that "other persons . . . must be treated as ends in themselves, not as means to some other...
...Choose We Must." "True," he warned, "we must not forget our own faith; we must be sensitive to the dangers that lurk in any choice. But choose we must, and we shall be silly dupes if we forget that again and again in the past thirty years, just such preparations in other countries have aided to supplant existing governments, when the time was ripe...