Word: namelessness
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...nameless European republic in the middle '30s, the play is about a madman named Salvator Waltz and his infernal invention, a machine which, Waltz insists, can produce at any distance an explosion of incredible force. Preposterous, snorts the Minister of War. Waltz obligingly blasts the top off a nearby mountain. Proclaiming an era of universal peace (and general slavery), he seizes the reins of government from the numbed fingers of a gabbling, gasping Cabinet, promptly mounts a demented reign of terror. He responds to an attempted assassination by blowing up a city of 600,000. Weary of ruling...
...Until an applicant got to training, the Corps was little more than the nameless clerks with whom they corresponded...
...William Childs Westmoreland, 51, directed the historic buildup, drew up the battle plans, and infused the 190,000 men under him with his own idealistic view of U.S. aims and responsibilities. He was the sinewy personification of the American fighting man in 1965 who, through the monsoon mud of nameless hamlets, amidst the swirling sand of seagirt enclaves, atop the jungled mountains of the Annamese Cordillera, served as the instrument of U.S. policy, quietly en during the terror and discomfort of a conflict that was not yet a war, on a battlefield that was all no man's land...
...Yunck, 47. As operations officer of the First Marine Air Wing, Yunck had helped to plan Operation Harvest Moon; later he went out in a four-man armed "Huey" helicopter, directing fighter-bomber attacks south of Danang. He was about to call in a strike on a tiny, nameless hamlet when he looked down. His chopper was low enough for him to see women and children. It was also low enough for a Viet Cong machine gunner to sight in on the Huey. "I knew I couldn't call in a strike," said Yunck soon afterward. "And that...
...killers, Ben and Gus, basement room on from the Organization, for a nameless victim to their only contact with world is a dumb this presumably deuilding, which them messages -- food. This is Pinter's man's isolation of genuine communication the outside world. Only conversation can fill up while Ben and Gus wait. of the play. Ben message from upstairs dumb waiter, and pulls to kill Gus. has traded roles with be victim, has been the security of the the Outside...