Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position is, therefore, not that I favor a rapid withdrawal as a matter of policy but that I see the strong possibility of such a withdrawal as a matter of prediction-and I have come to the reluctant belief that the war is probably destined for a messy ending sooner than most Americans expect...
...Francisco, Kilo rode in the camper section and ate most of my clothes. There, I walked into the middle of a small riot. Then I had my car towed away for a slightly expired parking meter, and got ticketed for failing to see a sign hidden behind a truck. Back in Los Angeles, a confirmed Californian, I made arrangements for my burial at Forest Lawn...
...game was the most striking example of peaceful coexistence at the 19th Pugwash conference of scholars from East and West. In the meeting halls, the delegates, not so frolicsome, sailed rhetorical missiles-though there was general agreement that arms reduction would be wonderful (see p. 21). Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's Institute of American Studies, put the issue in perspective: "As long as the U.S.A. has superiority over the U.S.S.R., it is considered that everything is all right. For Americans are sure they are the good guys, intending no harm to anybody. But I assure you that...
...Taylor said that when he and his friends arrived at the house-where he had not been for many years-they went up the stairs to see the portrait. When he turned the corner he saw the same painting of the same ancestor in the same place-but it was very small. Instead of huge it was moderate say two feet by three feet instead of five feet by seven feet. All those years the painting had been growing and growing in his memory. He knew that nothing in the house had really changed. The confusion arose in his proud...
...documentary photography of the 1930's minutely recording filthy faces and ragged clothes no longer shocks us. Hardened by color pictures of Vietnam and Appalachia. we often see the acceptance of suffering in the eyes of poverty-stricken people as almost an historical fact...