Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consulting the U.S. Reacting with what the Pentagon analysts called "unrestrained fury," the State Department cabled the embassy to stop the fighting. "This may require tough talk," read the dispatch, "but the U.S. cannot accept this insane bickering." Marine General Lewis W. Walt threatened to use U.S. jets to shoot down any South Vietnamese plane that tried to attack the dissidents, and Deputy Ambassador William J. Porter withdrew U.S. airlift and advisers from the Saigon government until Thieu, who was a member of Ky's ruling coterie of generals, gave assurances that elections would be held as promised...
...Vietnamese. Take the title 'advisers,' which you have given yourselves. To us, an adviser should be someone who is superior in every way, who can give you advice on all subjects, on life, on love. You are really just 'demonstrators.' You show us how to shoot the M-16 and fly the F5, and we need you for that. But you are not 'advisers.' You thought that by giving us an easy life, a television, a washing machine, a car, that we could fight Communism better. That is not true. You must have discipline...
...first job was to establish that IIliers was Combray," remarks Larcher with a sly grin. "That wasn't easy. When I first came here and people discovered what I was trying to do, they wanted to shoot me." Even today, the town does relatively little to exploit the commercial possibilities of Proust's name, apart from the Benoist patisserie with its madeleines. Actually, according to Larcher, Marcel's madeleines came from another bakery, located a scant three doors from Tante Léonie's garden gate. "But," he sighs, "the owner doesn't care about...
...nail the coonskin to the wall. Johnson organized us as effectively as any antiwar campaign, for his defiant cowboy style would admit no doubts or hopes for respite: he intended to win no matter how many are killed or who might protest. Nixon learned from Cambodia that the shoot from-the-hip style was a risk. If he told the people what he intended to do they would get angry; so, instead, he lied, couching plans for victory in the rhetoric of withdrawal, calling mass murder a decrease in the level of action...
...good ones have "helpless" victims (women, children, old people), or at least valorous ones (police, prisoners of war). Unsafe assembly lines, malconstructed bleachers, badly-made cars can claim lives every day, though we'll hear little about it; but let some psychopath carve up a few nurses, or someone shoot a cop over in Brighton and we'll never hear the end of it. Journalism consists of the substitution of an event's dramatic elements for the event itself; newspapers and magazines are drama by other means. Let me entertain...