Word: savely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Height of Irony. For the U.S., trying to save the tortured land from Communism, the Buddhist-instigated anti-American outburst was the height of irony. For it was the U.S. embassy that gave refuge to leading monks during the Buddhists' 1963 campaign against President Ngo Dinh Diem. Now, the bonzes were openly turning on their American benefactors...
...second in 1900, the third in 1950, and the fourth only ten years later." The fifth and sixth, if the plot line holds its course, are close at hand. Teen-agers today do not think of themselves as "knights in shining chinos" riding forth on rockets to save the universe. But even the coolest of them know that their careers could be almost that fantastic...
There was much hilarity in the ranks, as the students were dragged the gauntlet down the long corridors to the stairwell. Very few of them struggled or resisted in any way save going limp, but they were deliberately hauled down the stairs on their backs and tailbones, arms and wrists were twisted, hair and ears pulled--all to the immense amusement of the Oakland police. And lest anyone think I exaggerate, listen to the cops themselves...
...crusade to save Memorial Drive got some new allies Friday when George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine; heart specialist Paul Dudley White '08; and the deans of two other Massachausetts medical schools signed...
...doctors attacked the "hazards to life and health" posed by speedways in a statement promulgated by co-chairman Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot '43 of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive...