Word: scatteredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saigon itself was hit hard only in certain areas, such as the Chinese district of Cholon. Though scattered shells fell throughout the capital, life in downtown Saigon was business as usual after the first alarms: streets were filled with noisy scooters, pedicabs and cars; stores stayed open; sidewalk vendors hawked...
Beholder & Beneficiary. The contest was close: Rockefeller, 31.1%; Volpe, 30%; Nixon, 26.2%, with the balance scattered. Under a new state law, Rockefeller gets all 34 convention votes on the first ballot-after that delegates are free to switch. While a minor victory in terms of delegate strength, it had a...
Ironically, Kennedy could win a plurality in Nebraska's popular voting, yet lose a substantial portion of the state's 28 convention delegates to McCarthy. Because Nebraska filings closed before Bobby announced, no Kennedy-committed candidates are listed on the ballot to select the 22 at-large delegates...
Another charge made by Hochhuth is that through certain insinuative speeches, Churchill manipulated Hitler into initiating a few scattered bombing raids on British towns. Churchill thus could feel free to launch massive retaliatory fire-storm raids on the hapless civilians of Hamburg and Dresden. Since it was Hitler's...
The year was 1904, and scattered about Europe half a dozen men, unacquainted with one another, were lighting the fuse of the post-Victorian revolution-Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky. But they didn't matter at all. For in Cambridge, England, 24-year-old Lytton Strachey was loudly...