Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...masterly performers as Samuel Butler, Rousseau and Stendhal, not to speak of a swarm of modern confessionists. After writing his mother's life-partly, of course, as she told it to him-O'Connor has no pity left to spend on himself. "The gutter where life had thrown her was deep and dirty," he notes. But, like her son, Mother was a bit on the fey side. With the innocence they shared, they forded the gutter undirtied. A quality that O'Connor variously calls "gaiety," "simple-mindedness" or "belief in the world of appearances" made for survival...
...think of the partitioning of Germany as just punishment for moral and political guilt," when in fact a divided Germany is "a malignancy in the heart of Europe." The 17 million East Germans cannot "be thrown on the rubbish heap of pensable" history." and Brandt looked called forward NATO to "indis some sort of "political Atlantic community." And he urged that the West "abandon the fear that Communists are supermen and instead recognize that they are a calculable and thus defeatable entity." Willy Brandt. 47, easily convinced the U.S. that he was a stout and able friend...
Five weeks ago, the pro-Lumumba troops and goon squads in Kivu went on a drunken rampage, seeking revenge for Lumumba's death. One 75-year-old nun was thrown from a truck, and while she lay in the dust, with both arms and her pelvis broken, was' raped by eleven soldiers. An American missionary girl was held prisoner for days and raped four times. One of the biggest laughs was to rip the clothes off white women and force them to dance about on sharp gravel, chanting such phrases as "I murdered Lumumba, the Christ...
...plot, such as it is, revolves around a bunch of Chicago hoods, some imported Parisian prostitutes and a precinct's worth of incompetent cops. A love interest is thrown in between the head cop and the chief poule, but all this subplot produces are some melodic but agonizingly uninteresting love songs. Each of the three groups of characters has amusing ensemble bits: the prostitutes form an amazingly synchronized kickline, and the hoods have a funny song about the Apalachin Assassination Association...
Another member of the panel, Eliot Berg, instructor in Economics, replied that advisers would be thrown out straight" if they tried to force their of government on the African, even portedly pro-Communist Guinea...