Word: norths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hanoi radio reported that Chinese planes have bombed factories, power plants and communications facilities i North Vietnam, inflicting "terrible damage...
...family members witness the rise of the Jim Crow South and the Ku Klux Klan, both World Wars, the race riots of the Wilson era and the hard times of the Depression. They endure the outright segregation of the Old South and the de facto segregation of the modern North. They contend with racist military officers, hypocritical white liberals, and Uncle Tom blacks. They wrestle with the political and sociological imperatives of such thinkers as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and Malcolm X. Yet intimate matters of life, love and death always come ahead of civics lessons or historical fine...
...fact, fame had been a long time coming. For years even Haley, who is now 57, did not know that he was a writer. He got only mediocre grades in high school, and after two years in a North Carolina teach ers college he became a cook in the Coast Guard, where he stayed for 20 years. He started writing to relieve the bore dom of life aboard ship, and when he left the service in 1959 he decided on even more hazardous duty, the life of the freelance journalist...
...manual for Roman field soldiers by the philosopher Epictetus: "It is better to die in hunger, exempt from guilt and fear, than to live in affluence and perturbation." It was a lesson Stockdale would draw on repeatedly after parachuting from his crippled A-4 jet and landing in North Viet Nam on Sept...
...imprisonment, including three years in solitary confinement and more than a year in total isolation. He was tortured for days on end and, by his own count, was reduced to total submission 15 times. But he also thwarted his captors on quite a few occasions. In 1969, when the North Vietnamese were about to use him in a propaganda film, he battered his face to a puffy pulp with a wooden stool and chopped off his hair with a razor, slashing his scalp in the process. The enemy no longer found him photogenic...