Word: rot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were handed over to northern soldiers, who competed with each other for the fun of shooting them. Hundreds of Ibo bodies, many stripped and shot full of holes, were scooped into dump trucks and carted off to common graves or to the nearby Benin River. Others were left to rot in the blistering...
...Real Rot. Though the "Morgenthau Plan" brought him his greatest notoriety, Henry Morgenthau Jr. was an epicenter of argument long before the German controversy arose. A wealthy Jewish apple farmer from New York's sylvan Dutchess County, he was among the first of Franklin Roosevelt's braintrusters, having gone to Washington in 1933 to administer the wrenching fiscal reforms of the New Deal. Those beginnings and the battles during which Morgenthau frequently and deliberately drew the fire of outraged bankers and businessmen to save...
...Morgenthau believed that only by destroying Germany's ability to wage war, through elimination of its industry, could the first steps toward "re-educating" the German people begin. The Nazis, he believed, were only surface villains (for them, Morgenthau preferred firing squads to war-crimes trials); the real rot was in the German soul. "Somebody's got to take the lead about let's be tough to the Germans," he told Assistant Secretary of War John J. Mc-Cloy on his return to Washington...
...Bullitt swiftly told off his hosts with sharp criticisms of the police state. From 1936 to 1941, he was in Paris, now "the champagne ambassador," cutting a social swath unequaled before or since-and deluging Washington with memos warning against the rise of Nazi Germany and the dry rot in France. Largely retired after World War II, he spoke out for a U.S. naval blockade of Red China during the Korean War, sought support for invasion by Chiang Kaishek. Only last month his name was in the headlines with the publication of Thomas Woodrow Wilson-A Psychological Study, a sharply...
...Rot & Rust. Despite these shifts in direction, Burma still remains one of the most determinedly socialist and neutralist nations in Southeast Asia. Ne Win has nationalized more than 90% of Burma's industry and created a socialist bureaucracy that would give even Moscow the shivers. The distribution system, handled by military men with no economic experience, distributes almost nothing. While warehouses bulge with goods that often rot or rust away, store managers are faced with too many customers and too little merchandise. They stage lotteries, giving successive winners the privilege of buying whatever is left on the shelves, which...