Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cruel human toll. Communist and South Vietnamese casualties ran into the thousands. Four U.S. airmen joined the missing-in-action list when their two aircraft were downed on the last day. Another four Americans were known to have been killed-including Lieut. Colonel William B. Nolde, 43, of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., who was cut down in an artillery barrage at An Loc only eleven hours before the ceasefire. He was the 45,941st American to have died by enemy action in Viet Nam since...
...acknowledgment of these facts will not necessarily be pleasant-but it should be healthy. It can force Americans to regard themselves in an unclouded mirror, to see the war not so much as a cause as a symptom. Only then can the repairs begin...
Personally I admire the Italians for being able to do so much with so little. Why scare American tourists away from one of the world's most pleasant cities with a story that could as easily have been written about almost any American airport...
...Catton takes leave of the Civil War to recall his own boyhood in Benzonia, then and now a tiny town on Michigan's northwestern frontier. It is a land where life is still "easy and pleasant, with fish to be caught and clear lakes for swimming." Yet as Catton looks out his window, he can see the threatening white domes of early-warning radar installations...
Catton remembers his early days, when the present was pleasant and the future was not to be doubted. "Mercifully," he writes, "we could not know that when it finally came, the future would frighten us more than anything else on earth. We were at halfway house; the quarters were good, the grounds were pleasant, and there was a fine view of the surrounding country. What more could we want...