Word: vendettas
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Long the best-educated and most industrious of Nigeria's tribes, the Ibos have used their resources to rebuild their war-torn region instead of carrying on a vendetta. When the war ended, the defeated Biafran leader, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu,* bitterly boasted that the Ibos would rebel again. He turned out to be wrong. Ibos these days rarely speak of Biafra or of secession. "We tried and lost," says an Ibo businessman in Ibadan. "That finishes it. From now on, we are all Nigerians...
...name of Henry R. Luce, if you could keep your mouth shut for 50 years, there is no reason to editorialize now except for personal vendetta. My only question is: Now that you have crucified Nixon, who will crucify you? I will not cancel my 25-year subscription to your so-called journalistic effort for the simple reason that I wish to have the pleasure of receiving your final edition. May it be soon, for the sake of our nation...
...leading the impeachment drive: "As the one who was defeated by the President, I don't want to do anything that might open the charge that this is a vendetta on the part of the defeated team...
...that 70% favored an inquiry into impeachment. What is more ominous for Nixon is the collapse of some of his most loyal props. In a striking about-face, the pro-Nixon Detroit News urged the President to resign "to spare the nation three more years of turmoil and political vendetta." Admitting that the nation was in the midst of a "classic crise de régime," William F. Buckley's conservative National Review concluded that the President must step down if he no longer enjoys the support of the majority of the people. Buckley himself predicted that Nixon will...
...team of black convoy drivers in World War II France. The actors are delightful, especially Stu Gilliam as the street-smart sharpie "Sweet" Williams, cherub-faced Hilly Hicks as his Good Book-quoting buddy, and Val Bisoglio as the group's irascible Italian captain spleening his personal vendetta against il Duce. The dominant black vernacular, if slightly too contemporary to be authentic, brings some new life to tired old combat comedy situations, and here and there some jewels sparkle: during an exchange of insults, one soldier is told, "You got enough ugly to open a branch face." In what...