Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attendants. After a briefing in Khmer and Lao and the processing of health forms, the refugees were hustled aboard buses and taken to a TraveLodge motel for introductory lessons on American life: how to operate light switches, how to use a toilet. Many stood on the motel's second-floor balcony and stared uncomprehendingly at the rush of traffic below. Others squatted on the pink sidewalk and simply gazed at their feet. They had journeyed several centuries in 19 hours, and the shock would be a long time wearing...
Soon he will go to China for his second visit since leaving Washington. He will journey to France, Germany and Britain. Then he will move to New York, a city he wryly describes as the most private place in America because "nobody likes anybody else there...
From his Pacific heights Nixon detects a change among intellectuals abroad and here. "They are beginning to take a second look at the world around them, a more realistic look." If they can join with the leaders of American society, then, he believes, we may be headed out of an era "lost in uncertainty" and "paralyzed by propriety." That way, says the exile, this "dicey time" could turn into an era of opportunity...
...beaten and stabbed her and Kimberly. Then he cold-bloodedly stabbed Kristen in her bed. To hide his crimes, the prosecution charged, MacDonald wrote "Pig" in Colette's blood on the headboard of a bed and then stabbed himself. Last week the jury found MacDonald guilty of second-degree murder in the slayings of Colette and Kimberly, and of first-degree murder in the killing of Kristen. Judge Franklin T. DuPree Jr. sentenced Mac-Donald, now 35 and an emergency-room surgeon in Long Beach, Calif, to life imprisonment...
...exploded, blasting a three-ton army truck across the highway and spewing wreckage and human bodies into the air. Surviving paratroopers radioed for help, and a contingent of the Queen's Own Highlanders, including its commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel David Blair, 40, arrived by helicopter. Moments later a second blast went off, ambushing the Highlanders rescue force, this time detonated in a vacant gatehouse near...