Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that can only be fought and won at such a terrible human cost ought not to be fought at all? May I just say very briefly that I don't want to be told that this war is ugly and that all wars are ugly. Some wars are uglier than others and this one is the ugliest in the history of our country...
...some investors and mutual-fund salesmen are concerned, one of the uglier ornaments was a rider tightening up Section 351 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code. It ruled out the establishment of any exchange funds or-as they are more commonly known-swap funds that had not been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission before last...
...trouble started with a noisy political rally in the capital of Managua, where Conservative Party Candidate Fernando Aguero harangued some 30,000 of his followers and called upon the country's 5,000-man army to join his anti-Somoza movement. As the crowd's mood grew uglier, troops moved in with rifle butts and bayonets. Before long, both sides were shooting. The highly emotional Aguero and 1,200 of his followers, mostly peasants just in from the country, fled to the nearby Gran Hotel, where they took 117 guests as hostages, including 89 Americans. For 24 hours...
...Danang raid, as in many other ways, that "ugly little war" in Viet Nam last week got uglier - and bigger...
...been a long, ugly war, and it will undoubtedly get longer and uglier. But the increased use of American strength has begun to pay off. Communist powers have retaliated mostly with shrieks of anger: "Moscow last week threatened, not for the first time, to permit "volunteers" to go to South Viet Nam if the U.S. continues its "aggression." There is aerial reconnaissance evidence that a site is being set up near Hanoi for Russian-made SAM II antiaircraft missiles...