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...break and run in battle, as did the 39th Ranger Battalion earlier this year. The 39th became known as "the roadrunners." But during the Quangngai fight "the roadrunners" stood their ground on a conical hill called Nuitran. There 108 of them were wiped out, erasing in the process the slur on their battalion's name...
...vestigial in the carnivorous septibranch bivalves"; what, have not the carnivorous septibranch bivalves their own vivacious style? "The style is present in only those herbivorous gastropods which feed by cilia or by slow radular action; in archeogastropods (e.g., Lunella) the style is mucus rod"; will Lunella tolerate such a slur? "Carnivorous snails have no style." The last straw...
...form, as he proved last week in a tympany-tempered speech at Port Said. "Anyone who does not like our atti tude," he roared, "can drink the sea. And if the Mediterranean is not big enough, we will give him the Red Sea as well." Nasser's salty slur -the Arabic equivalent of "jump in the lake" -was aimed at U.S. Ambassador Lucius D. Battle, who had been brazen enough to criti cize Nasser for his recent anti-American posture. Shortly after the U.S. Belgian rescue operation in the Congo, Egyptian mobs burned the $350.000 John F. Kennedy Library...
...providing a greater variety of seasonal prayers for the Christian year. Last week delegates approved the first new Methodist hymnal in 29 years. The songbook drops some familiar samples of 19th century hymnody, such as Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, which Negro Methodists claim has an unmistakable racial slur in its reference to "lesser breeds without the law." Added are 122 new texts, including such non-Methodist favorites as The Old Rugged Cross and How Great Thou Art. Also new are 91 all-but forgotten hymns by John and Charles Wesley, a number of Negro spirituals (cleansed of dialect wording...
Chicago is not the sort of place to take an insult lying down, particularly when the slur has crossed the Atlantic. "Injustice has been done to a great city," roared Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, 61, when he heard that the city of Reading, England, has gone and changed the name of its Chicago Road to Sandcroft Road. Explained Reading's Mayor J.C.H. Butcher: "Residents of the street have nothing against the city of Chicago. They say they just got tired of being asked by visitors where they could check their guns...