Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crown, their panicked reaction to the Emancipation in 1861 revealed the large extent of their dependence on the use of the monarch's serfs for survival. Realizing this, the nobles began to accept what was given to them a little more gratefully, living out the Russian "conviction" that the path way to wealth lies not in fighting the authorities but in collaborating with them. And Pipes argues that with trade and manufacture at the disposal of the tsar, the enfeebled Russian middle class was also forced to sell...
...years and two months in a North Vietnamese prison: "American disengagement from Viet Nam was inevitable, but the manner in which we did it was embarrassing. I certainly thought we owed it to the Vietnamese to show a little more class than that. We led them down the primrose path and left them hanging on the end of the limb. Then we sawed it off. So why should we be surprised when we see them fall? As for me, I did everything I could. I can face myself in the mirror. I don't know how many other Americans...
...alike." Added McWhirter: "By degrees, we become involved in the heart of what is happening. Vietnamese stop us while taking notes and ask us to explain the U.S. Congress, when the evacuation is coming, and most poignantly, how they can get onto the passenger list." Following the path of some of those who managed to get out, Hong Kong Correspondent David Aikman flew to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, which was rapidly becoming a sort of Ellis Island for the Vietnamese evacuees...
...worst of all, the boy's sanctity-perhaps even his solvency-are being threatened by a family squabble: in India, the high-living guru's mother Mataji, who claims to be the ultimate authority in the Divine Light movement, has summarily ousted him for "falling from the path...
...like the words of Ford's speeches, the path of this patriotic parade will undergo little alteration, passing the same Howard Johnsons, the same laundromats, the same Golden Arches, the same car washes and supermarkets and bowling alleys. Through Massachusetts and Rhode Island, through Connecticut and into New York, the celebration of our nation's birth will succumb to the same contradictions that so numbed the initial ceremonies. Echoes of the shot heard round the world will become lost in the tumult of cats speeding by as housewives do their week's shopping and couples go to the movies...