Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subdivisions-one comprising Saigon and Cholon, the other five wedges pointing at the heart of the city-and parceled out their troops among them. Not all of the Communist units are at full strength, but each of the five wedges harbors an infantry regiment, an artillery battalion, four autonomous main-force battalions and guerrillas. Already inside the capital, say intelligence sources, is the so-called A2/C 10 Special Action Command of perhaps 1,600 undercover troops, including both longtime operators and men recently infiltrated...
They reacted by bombarding the police with street cobblestones and beer bottles. The police charged with truncheons and hauled many of the students into the store's cellars, where they were severely beaten. Fighting spread all over the main streets of Zurich and dragged on until dawn. Next evening, there were more clashes when students stoned a police station where 20 youths were being held. In all, about 50 students and police were injured in the clashes. It was a rude awakening for Zurich, which so prides itself on its peaceful setting that its road signs announce: "A quiet...
...drainees- pecially if they have a perfectionist turn of mind, like my friend Mrs. Guinness, who feels that "for a fur coat to look proper, it must be completely new." The quest for youth and beauty is the female way of whiling away time and money slimming expeditions to Main Chance or the Greenhouse, animal-cell injections by Niehans in Switzerland, face liftings by Rees or Converse in New York, and assorted blood aerations, breast shapings, or skin peelings. These cosmetic Sayings leave a woman pretty unsightly for a week or so. So Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post (you know, Post...
...these Dissenters argued that the only "absolute and inalienable" rights were human rights, not property rights. Bringing theology and politics into coincidence, they established conscience-the "inner light"-as the divine right of the common man. In the 19th century, Lynd says, the doctrine was assimilated into the American main stream: "Property was no longer the ark of the covenant. It was recognized to be not a natural right but a social convention...
Final Spiral. In Lynd's quick march, the next main engagement that had to be fought by the American radical was to establish "a freedom to act as well as think and speak." History, he believes, provided the appropriate issue in abolitionism, which expanded the private privilege of conscience into the public privilege of civil disobedience. The radicals of 1776 stipulated that "only majorities could renew the social contract," explains Lynd. "Abolitionism was obliged to discard that restriction so as to justify individual disobedience to laws which sanctioned slavery...