Word: ve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nguyen Van Thieu was closeted in his daily conference with aides. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker was lunching at his residence six blocks away. A handful of American relief workers held a silent vigil. General Creighton Abrams, asked what the Viet Nam Moratorium movement meant to him, replied: "We've got our job to do here and that's what we're doing." Sure enough, an army platoon set out from Chu Lai on combat patrol and killed two guerrillas in a firefight. But half the members of the platoon wore the black armbands...
Later she reflected: "When I went to that meeting this morning, I believe that I was emotionally committed. Now it is more than that. I've enlisted." How would she serve? "I really don't know what we might do next. I just can't tell. We are not the sort of people who picket and hand out pamphlets. But I do think we might have some of the people who spoke this morning over to our home. I'd like to have some of our neighbors in to hear them talk...
ATLANTA FRACTURE Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. closes out eight years in office with the simple explanation that "I've shot my wad and it's time for somebody else to come along...
...keep from "going round the bend," Barrymaine devised elaborate daily routines. He ended each day by dictating faintly remembered news stories into a make-believe telephone. "Oh, Miss Jones," the ritual began, "I've got a good lead for today." When he had finished "filing" the story, he sometimes put in another imaginary call-to his 25-year-old daughter in London. He found the perfect use for China's stiff brown toilet paper: he made himself a deck of cards out of it and played solitaire...
...what you're cooking is absolutely fantastic-if you squeeze their arm and whisper in their ear that this meal is the greatest yet-they're going to love it. They'll never suspect that that strange taste in the potatoes is just that you've burned them...