Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marked the day with a champagne reception that U.S. Ambassador Mauricio Solaun declined to attend. The Sandinistas promptly labeled this year's observance Second Independence Day. But neither side could really celebrate a victory in one of the most savage and confusing wars that Central America has ever seen. Each side predictably deflated its own casualties and exaggerated the number of those on the other side. The Nicaraguan Red Cross, whose members heroically retrieved the dead and wounded and rescued refugees in the midst of the shooting, estimated at week's end that at least 500 people...
...analogy with 16th century Spain, which "became the principal beneficiary of the discovery of the New World in the form of large amounts of gold and silver, introducing into Spain huge amounts of unearned purchasing power. It was spent to build the most elegant society the world had ever seen up to that time in Europe . . . But it was a consumptive society, and when the Spaniards went through their gold, they invested nothing-and economically they entered the 17th century barefoot. The question for us is: Have we found a way to build an affluent society? Are we putting enough...
...official rationales for the war, all the official ideas of how to conduct yourself on this dark and bloody ground. A sometime college student one suspects of having literary ambitions-he's looking for a war, any war, merely to experience it. These soldiers are mostly seen not as brutes, but as decent if limited men doing their best in an indecent situation...
...autobiography has done its job, and the reader has seen a man intelligent and selfabsorbed, better at action than ideas, somewhat rueful and, by his own testimony, a reasonably decent fellow. The inclination is to accept the judgment. - John Skow
...never seen such enthusiasm before," captain Mark Meyer said, "People were just going crazy...