Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regard themselves as the righteous guardians of social justice. There is an invidious callousness which pervades every layer of American society, including its left-swinging tips. It is an insensitivity spawned no doubt of power tipsyness, for the U.S. is a nation strong enough to keep its own wars thousands of miles off American shores, and fight them essentially by proxy. Angola today is a superpower war, that won't melt away just because one side denies the reality of its own colossal footprint in the mire. Fifteen thousand Cubans remain in Angola because the U.S. will take no initiative...
...foot-wide bomb craters. Saigon's population skyrocketed from 450,000 to nearly four million by the time we left. Three million South Vietnamese were left unemployed. Many had worked for Thieu's army or civil bureaucracy, or in American-financed factories processing American raw materials. Two hundred thousand Vietnamese women had become prostitutes, while perhaps as many as three million adult Vietnamese had contracted venereal disease...
...notice was circulated to all University faculty informing them of the death of a colleague. That practice had been discontinued. President Bok recognized that some members of the Faculty might object to this decision, and he assured members that, although not sending out the cards would save a few thousand dollars, this economy should not prevail against strong sentiment in favor of continuing the practice. The President then went on to observe that in the past there had been certain deficiencies in the way in which the University officially recognized the death of a faculty member. The President's office...
...very last moment, Daniel Patrick Moynihan claims, he did not know whether he would quit as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. "I made up my mind 30 times," he said. "It's like Mark Twain said: 'Giving up smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.' " Last week Moynihan finally made up his mind: he was resigning...
...stood on the curb, hands jammed into our pockets, staring at our feet pawing the ground. Then he went home to East Somerville, to his wife and three kids and a quality control job at Polaroid; I turned back into the Yard, where the lamplight of a hundred thousand campus and suburban bedrooms revealed the faces of young dreamers starting into books or at cracks in the ceiling, heads encased in earphones, wired to their stereos in a kind of emotional intravenous...