Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading of the cruel slaughter of the young harp seals in Canada [March 21], I experienced a feeling of very great and utter sadness. When we no longer care about the very young and helpless, we deserve all the horrors we may reap...
...read your article about Geel and its mental asylum [March 14] with great interest. I was in custody of the asylum at the age of two in 1938 and placed with a foster family in Geel. When Germany overran Belgium, I was forced to hide. A few months later, my younger sister joined the same household. Though the whole town knew of our Jewish origin, we lived through the entire war years without any harm, at the constant risk of many peo ple's lives. Never again have I known such love and care...
...your article "The Wild Flowers of Thought" [March 14], you mention a Russian proverb that according to you runs like this: "With seven nurses, the child goes blind." Obviously you had in mind the following Russian proverb...
...second British emissary, William Whitlock, arrived in early March, prepared to offer Webster's Anguillians precisely what they had desired in 1967. But it was two years too late: Anguilla was by now fully committed to self-government and independence from St. Kitts. Whitlock snubbed Webster, and within five hours the Crown's agent was unceremoniously expelled from the island. Gathering up the last tattered hems of colonial majesty, Britain ordered troops to Anguilla...
...most recent border clash, on March 15, fell far short of being a decisive incident. Details being released gradually in Moscow, however, assert that the Chinese force involved was the equivalent of a regiment-about 3,000 men. It is in the Soviet interest to portray China's belligerence in lurid terms. Moscow's reports were strongly phrased and probably exaggerated. The Chinese employed their Korea-proven "human wave" attacks-and Moscow claims that Russian casualities were heavy, although exact totals have not been released so far. A Soviet counterattack, using armored cars, reportedly cleared the island. Soviet...