Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such an unliveable situation, writes Tom Dardis in Some Time in the Sun, his account of the Hollywood screenwriting years of five American writers, the job that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered Fitzgerald was a godsend. Unfortunately, Dardis, who is anxious to refute Fitzgerald critic Arthur Mizner and others who have portrayed the writer demoralized and deteriorating under the California sun, attempts to equate Fitzgerald's happiness with the $1,250 paychecks he received in 1938 from MGM. Dardis gives a blow-by-blow account of how Fitzgerald secured his contracts, but almost completely omits Fitzgerald's much talked about affair...
...sun belt that is prospering; it is the Bible Belt. Religion has a powerful effect in maintaining the humanity, civility and cohesiveness of a region. It teaches people that there are higher values than efficiency and moneymaking...
...worst firefight I've ever seen." Huddled in terror on the central soccer field, student captives were stripped to the waist and kicked around by swaggering soldiers. Shoes, watches, eyeglasses and golden Buddha medallions were confiscated. The wounded were left to bleed-drawing flies in the noonday sun, while military doctors awaited "instructions" from their commanders...
...Earl Butz. Many others came out during the Vietnam War--for instance, presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy's 1965 statement that "the imperium must first and foremost go to war to support its imperial representatives. Such tautological reasoning lies at the foundation of the imperial role." (reprinted in The Chicago Sun-Times, 7/11/71). What those in power say in private often contrasts sharply with the public image they would like to create...
...anything," the coach finished, "just stick it in your craw and start again." Like against Dartmouth, in Hanover, in four days, when the sun might even make an appearance, because for now, it haint no use to grumble and complane, when God sorts out the weather and sends rain...