Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, after 17 months on the FBI's Most Wanted list, Brown, 28, reappeared. The dramatic episode was a bitter elaboration on his mordant dictum: "Violence is as American as cherry pie...
...Mark Shedd, and he was telling a Senate committee just what he saw as the nitty-gritty facts. His proposal: that the Federal Government nationalize the nation's 25 largest city systems, at a cost of $10 billion to $12 billion per year. Without "something more than pious pie-in-the-sky pronouncements," he said, "there won't be, in the words of one famous American, any urban public school systems left to kick around any more...
Calley got into the Army in the first place almost by accident, when he ran out of gas and money in Albuquerque and decided to enlist. He talks in a convincing colloquial way about such things as pizza-pie-throwing contests at OCS, a one-day "wartime romance" with a Vietnamese prostitute named Yvonne, and the repeated indoctrination to kill, as well as to serve the almighty body count. According to Calley, almost nothing was said either about protecting civilians or adhering to the Geneva Convention. For three months after arriving in Viet Nam, just after the Tet offensive, Calley...
...twice been bombed, has had its presses drenched with gasoline and acid and set afire, and its editions have been confiscated 150 times; the latest two crackdowns came only last week. Beyond all that,Duc's house in Vinh Binh was broken into and set afire, and his pie-à-terre in Saigon bombed...
Reasons Gelb: "Whoever plays the game within the consensus can get his little piece of the pie. Those who wanted a serious negotiating effort got a bombing pause and sometimes changes in position. Those who wanted more bombing got that. But a lot of these things are contradictory. Why does everybody get his slice? One, because the guy who is handling a piece of the action is thought to know best. Two, because this is the way to preserve the consensus, and that is the summum bonum...