Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military activities. Although no one can be sure, the chances are that no other atrocity of comparable scope has taken place in Viet Nam. But inevitably, the My Lai revelation has started a flood of other horror stories. Dozens of journalists, soldiers and visitors to Viet Nam have begun to recall other incidents of U.S. brutality. Individual acts of senseless ?sometimes gleeful?killing of civilians by U.S. troops apparently happened often enough to be deeply disturbing...
Those with birthdays drawn first will be the first to be inducted; those with birthdays drawn near the bottom of the list will be almost sure of exemption throughout the year. Those classified 1-A and not drafted during the year will drop into a lower-priority pool and will ordinarily be draft-exempt for the rest of their lives...
...Selective Service System isn't sure...
Teen-age sophisticates can snicker as much as they like, but Mrs. John Mitchell's first experiment with marijuana was a sure enough bad trip. The Attorney General's wife offered to help dramatize a Bureau of Narcotics briefing for Justice Department wives by taking a whiff of some marijuana leaves burning in a pot. "I stuck my head right over it," Mrs. Mitchell recalls, "and no sooner had I got my head up off the stuff than my eyes started running and my throat was all irritated." Despite medication, a violent 24-hour allergic reaction...
...middle class. "We have our own kind of inflation here," says Mrs. Vivian Taylor, a community worker in East Harlem. "On [welfare] check day, the first and 16th of each month, food prices are up. If 5 Ibs. of sugar was 59? the day before, it's sure to be 79? on check day." Samuel Meyer, 86, a wheelchair-bound resident of Manhattan's Lower East Side slums, finds food prices up so sharply that he can no longer make his $70-a-month welfare benefits pay for a nightly soup of chicken wings and vegetables...