Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly half of Netherlands New Guinea's 700,000 Papuans still live in primitive villages where the cowrie shell is the medium of exchange and where women often rank below pigs on the social scale. For the primitive tribesmen of the interior, the concept of government does not exist; their only political guideposts are myth and magic. Head-hunting and cannibalism are still practiced in some areas. Some Papuan natives wear no clothes save for string, have no dishes or cooking utensils. They consider death the action of a wizard, often chop off the ends of their fingers...
...Kind of Hell. World War I aggravated his bitterness. He was twice invalided, was finally sent to a hospital for the shell-shocked and insane. When he got out he joined the ranks of the Dadaists, once marched in a parade wearing a death's-head and carrying a poster saying "Dada, Dada, über alles." The Dadaists were only a minor influence on his art. He admired the way the Italian futurists portrayed tension and movement. He borrowed a little from the cubists and from Paul Klee, who was so intrigued by the art of children and lunatics...
...abuses that deep faith so blindly perpetrates. The dicta of the Puerto Rican bishops were a mere public scandal, for they didn't manage to unseat Munoz Marin, and de Gaulle's proposal to subsidize parochial schools (a sharp break with French secular tradition) is mostly fodder for hard shell baptists. But the Bakimore YMCA, which denied space for a birth control clinic because the Church threatened to boycott the United Fund Appeal, like the Santa Fe Mexican who was threatened with excommunication if her son attended a non-parochial school, suggest the perpetual abuses of an authoritarian church...
...crushed-but at a far higher cost than the outside world had guessed. At least 325 persons were dead. The gates at the Palace of the Prince of Paradise, the Emperor's main residence, were a mass of twisted iron. Downtown hotels and office buildings were agape with shell holes where, at the height of the rebellion, the loyal 1st Division had fought a pitched battle with 4,500 rebel palace guardsmen. The loyalists won the battle and followed up by storming Prince of Paradise Palace. As the assault began, the panicky rebels brutally machine-gunned 15 top government...
...line to the Communists). Caught in a deadly barrage, 1,500 surrendered and the rest fled into the jungle country that the Pathet Lao controls. As Vientiane counted its dead (an estimated 200), TIME Reporter James Wilde cabled: "The streets were littered with broken glass, shattered bricks, mangled cars, shell cases, abandoned trucks and Jeeps. In the center of town I passed bodies covered with a cloth or a bamboo mat. Funeral pyres lit the sky. Here and there the sidewalks were stained with blood." On the heels of Kong Le's retreat, Premier Prince Boun Oum drove into...