Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JAMES J. GIBBONS recently fathered a child born with a cleft palate. Gibbons served in areas of Vietnam sprayed with an herbicide containing the lethal chemical dioxin. Searching for an explanation and aid money for his child, Gibbons appealed to the Army, with no success. As a last resort he wrote his Congressman, "I am desperate and don't know where else to turn...
...first night of curfew [Friday] went. It was calm. But we must expect acts of sabotage and eventually terror. The reason is that the way things were going before [martial law], they [his opponents] didn't have to resort to that. They could have taken over the country-and I don't mean slowly. But if that is not possible for them, then they will resort to certain acts of sabotage and arson...
...king's peace and his formal vanity, the older one-to-one system of compensation was abstracted into a legal machine of great brutality. After centuries of racks, gougings, hangmen and unspeakably inventive tortures, much of mankind adopted the lockup as its principal instrument of punishment, with occasional resort to the noose, guillotine and electric chair...
Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters. pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under...
...seems, has succeeded in enhancing the quality of life at South House, but it may well have mistreated the minority contractor responsible for that improvement. It remains to be seen if the Cruz Construction Company can iron out its differences with the University, or whether it will have to resort to legal action...