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...talking about what they had just been through, or were embarrassed about it. "I went over there thinking I was doing something right and came back a bum," says Larry Langowski, now an administrator for Illinois Bell. "I came back decked with medals on my uniform, and I got spit on by a hippie girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Bloody Rite of Passage | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...post as Secretary of the Treasury. In the White House, Baker often counseled compromise. Regan conceives his job to be one of making sure that the President's will literally becomes law. To see that this gets done the old Marine lieutenant colonel is shaping a hierarchical, spit-and-polish organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead - Make My Day | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...horrible man who bought her brother's death: "I tell myself that one day he will come back here because he won't be able to resist seeing what's happened to his beautiful house." And when he does? the uneasy Chavel wonders aloud. The reply: "I'd spit in his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grace Notes the Tenth Man | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

While Cuba was a subject that gave him pleasure, the Congo was an annoyance to him. Throughout the voyage he was obsessed with the U.N.'s involvement in the Congo, especially the performance of the U.N. peace-keeping troops there and the activities of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "I spit on the U.N.," he raged. "It's not our organization. That good-for-nothing Ham (the Russian word for boor applied as a nickname to the U.N. chief) is sticking his nose in important affairs which are none of his business. He has seized authority that doesn't belong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Between the third Monday of September and Commencement, which is always the 38th Thursday after that, Law said she must squeeze in the various add, drop and withdrawal deadlines, vacations, exams and reading periods. She aims for 166 to 167 teaching days per year and tries to spit them evenly between semesters...

Author: By Margaret Seaver, | Title: Winter Break Shortens Reading Period | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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