Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...academic freedom statement after the Hunt Hall incident indicated that any statement made should be one that would not easily be appropriated for purposes other than those for which it was intended. Unhappily, virtually everything is now contextual, and that obliges people to be very precise in what they mean and in what they don't mean...
...reopen the infiltration route that leads toward Saigon. Other reports also suggested that key enemy units -including the elite 7th NVA Division and the 9th VC Division, which had taken part in every recent attack on the capital-were moving out of their sanctuaries and toward Saigon. Did that mean the offensive was about to enter a new phase of heavy fighting? Intelligence experts could not be certain. Some captured evidence pointed strongly to just that-as did a fresh shower of rocket and artillery attacks at week's end. Other evidence showed that the Communists thought they were...
...each other and the girls come out. They circle around the courtyard, shout insolently, call each other from afar, and inspect the small green, pink and white flames lit outside the windows of the church and beside the tombs of canons and bishops. As for the boys-tough and mean-looking-all have an air of victory (though what victories, except perhaps knocking a ball through a goal, have they won in their 15 or 20 years?). Nearly all are wearing caps (the few who are bareheaded haven't taken theirs off here). One out of four is tipsy...
...ground flying: when their ecclesiastical employers are out of earshot, they talk of bombing Lagos or heroically knocking down the Intruder by maneuvering a wingtip under his wingtip in the darkness and "flipping his ass to kingdom come." They joke grimly over the fact that their nightly flights mean only a trickle of food for Biafra's famished population. Then, as day begins to vanish over Sāo Tomé, dinner is served, the cargo trucks depart, the ancient aircraft cough into life, and the shuttle resumes...
...university's campus, 20-year-old Sheila O'Neil looked up from her calculations on the chart before her and shook her head. "We'd better postpone the organization meeting until next week," she said. "Mercury's going into opposition with Saturn in the 3rd House, which will mean bad communicating. But next Tuesday all systems will...