Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...101st Airborne Division at nearby Bien Hoa landed on the embassy's rooftop helipad. Working their way down, they met no resistance. Though V.C. prisoners are usually turned over to the Saigon government, this time the troopers had orders to kill every V.C. in sight, lest any had seen secret codes or plans in the embassy...
...fact, Anna Christina Olson, and until her death last week of a heart attack at the age of 74, very few people had ever seen her in person, although millions know her from Wyeth's work. A reclusive spinster who lived in a weatherbeaten grey homestead in Cushing, Me., up the road a piece from the house in which Wyeth and his family have summered for many years, Christina Olson was severely crippled by polio in childhood. Nonetheless, she supported herself for most of her life as a seamstress, earned a local reputation as a fine cook...
...village dances. He was barely 14 when he left home with a military band to start his career. For most of his life he had to play in orchestras, conduct or teach to support himself: when the Royal Orchestra premiered his Symphony No. 1 in Copenhagen, Nielsen could be seen sawing away dutifully at his regular stand in the second violin section...
...school. But a growing number agree with St. Louis Globe-Democrat Managing Editor George Killenberg. "There are only a few who still hold the old view of journalism schools," he says. "I didn't graduate from one, but I've been impressed with what we've seen recently. These guys can do the job right away...
...have been interrupting worship at West German Protestant churches, which they claim are unconcerned with the real problems of the world. Among other things, the demonstrators have demanded that ministers turn their services into group discussions on such topics as the immorality of capitalism. Since no pastor has yet seen fit to accept this demand, the agitators have occasionally littered the churches with copies of a bitter fiscal parody of the Lord's Prayer...