Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble, which started at a plastic-flower plant in the northeastern part of Kowloon, quickly blossomed into the most prolonged disturbances in the colony's postwar history. Mobs of three or four thousand teen-age boys, usually led by older youths who wore Mao Tse-tung emblems on their shirts and waved the little red book of Mao's sayings, stoned hotels, overturned autos, set fire to a double-decker bus, and showered bottles on the police...
...corner, and Norman Mailer won't shut up about his friend Jose Torres, the light-heavyweight fighter who keeps losing. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wants to shut up about Viet Nam but they bug him with it. And there's Charles Addams and David Merrick and maybe a thousand other names all jammed in this Manhattan cellar raising money for the Paris Review, which practically none of them reads but which George Plimpton, 46, edits when he is not sparring with Archie Moore or playing football and writing books like Paper Lion. "Everything George touches turns to gold," says...
...Karate and boxing and, once again, you growl with each movement. They tell you it's very important that you growl. In the first place, it reduces you to an animal. I mean that's what you feel like, Tarzan the savage beast of the jungle facing unarmed a thousand foes. I don't know how much hand-to-hand combat I learned, but I developed a damn intimidating growl...
Your story of May 16 concerning a Harvard physician's eye-witness report of the shocking civilian casualties in Vietnam helped to confirm statistics which many of us have known for some time. By conservative reckoning, we can estimate that 750 thousand civilians have been killed and 1.5 million wounded (probably half of them children) through the end of 1966. And this does not include the thousands afflicted by malnutrition and often starvation, due to normally bad conditions which have been immeasurably worsened by scorched-earth warfare...
This biography of Bobby Kennedy is not quite as venomous as Victor Lasky's J.h.K.: The Man & the Myth, nor does it have the I-was-there authenticity of Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy, or the sharp historical insights of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s A Thousand Days. Nevertheless, De Toledano's R.F.K. owes plenty to all three-along with dozens of other filchable Bobby notes and quotes from a multitude of other public-library-shelf sources. Predictaoly, the author has let his right-wing bias warp the good and winnow only the bad from the reams...