Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stealthily, South Vietnamese troops under Colonel Huynh Van Cao encircled the region, concealed themselves in the undergrowth and sat back to wait. Two days later, two Viet Cong reconnaissance patrols moved into the ambush, were quickly wiped out in a quick, murderous burst of machine-gun and rifle fire. This was just the beginning. As the heat of the day rose, it became clear that the main Communist force was walking into the same trap. In this group were at least 500 guerrillas, many of them youths in typical black peasant pajamas, obviously recruited from the local villages. Some carried...
...paste my casket with certificates for charities, and professorial chair endowments, and the hundred-and-one do-gooder agencies ghoulishly squeezing through the door of the funeral parlor for a handout. If you are going to be big-hearted ... do it on your own time . . . and don't wait for death to open up your heart to the needy and the sick. I believe flowers are proper and right at the time of death, beautifully symbolic of the brief human life, grown by God and thereby so precious to Him, even at its fading. So, no matter what others...
...Svensk Filmindus-tri; Janus) is Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman's belatedly exported first comedy, filmed in 1952. during a period of relative lightheartedness-Death enters the film momentarily, but he goes away. Four dissatisfied wives, to put the matter redundantly, are having coffee in a summerhouse. While they wait for their husbands to arrive for the weekend, each tells of the moment when she became resigned to the clod she married. In the brilliant, imperfect episodes that follow, Bergman illustrates the Chesterfieldian proposition that he went on to prove later in Smiles of a Summer Night and A Lesson...
...holz), jilts her for a square-rigger. Boyer plays Marius' father, Cesar. They are vast bladders of honor, mountains of wrath, vestfuls of selfesteem, and it is a great pleasure to watch them cheat each other at cards or craftily set a derby hat in the street and wait for a sucker to break his toe on the brick inside. Each plays the fool well, and each also accomplishes the difficult trick of playing the wise man-Chevalier when he tells his young wife of an old man's love, and Boyer when he explains to Marius that...
America's grandchildren, says Khrushchev, will live under socialism. Professor William Appleman Williams of the University of Wisconsin can hardly wait-although socialism to him has a different meaning than to the Soviet boss. After a long and transparently loaded survey of U.S. history, his book asks a final question in academic gobbledygook: Is the nation really forced into a choice between "government by a syndicalist oligarchy relying on expansion" (roughly, the U.S. Progressive-New Deal movement) and "government by a class-conscious industrial gentry" (paternalistic capitalism)? Historian Williams' answer: There is a third possibility...