Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard procedure, he said, was to sweep through such a village and herd its inhabitants into an open space on the far side. When he learned how many innocent civilians had been killed, said Medina, his reaction was, "Oh my God, what is ... What has happened?" Now the six-man jury of officers, who will begin their deliberations this week, must decide whether Calley or Medina was lying...
Captain Ernest Medina, Calley's superior officer, who commanded Charlie Company on its sweep into the South Vietnamese village, testified, as Calley had earlier, to the shock effects of combat. Like Calley, he recited a grisly story about the company's casualties when the men walked over a Viet Cong minefield 20 days before the massacre. One man hit by mine fragments, said Medina, "was split as if somebody had taken a cleaver right up from his crotch all the way to his chest cavity." Discussing the day of the massacre, Medina said: "For those...
...retreat to an earlier century, and he quotes Konrad Lorenz, the famed naturalist and animal behaviorist, who has been warning hostile student audiences that if they tear down knowledge to start afresh, they will backslide 200,000 years. "Watch out!" Lorenz cautions the students. "If you make a clean sweep of things, you won't go back to the Stone Age, because you're already there, but to well before the Stone...
...every federal income tax return. Computers help to diagnose illnesses, plan radiation therapy, and map a path for the brain surgeon's scalpel. One computer has synthesized the tone of a trumpet so authentically that experts cannot distinguish it from a genuine trumpet blast. In fact, the cybernetic sweep has reached so far that one harassed Manhattanite placed an ad last week in the New York Times begging computers to spell his name correctly: Ruben Morris...
...Green House, his state residence in St. Johns, Bird was often taunted by children who poked cruel fun at his wart-pocked face. Opponent George Herbert Walter, a former Birdman who established a rival political party and labor union four years ago, coined the slogan: "Spread the word, sweep out Bird." Walter, 32, charged that Antigua's prosperity was cruelly selective. He said that the hotels and refinery hired Antiguans for menial work but reserved the best jobs for whites, that the casino collected millions but paid a mere $100,000 yearly in fees, and that the government...