Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite popular cries that it use force against them, the Dutch government decided to wait out the terrorists, offering them no concessions at all. The tactic worked. First to surrender were the train hijackers (TIME, Dec. 22); they were quickly charged with murder. The South Moluccans inside the consulate, who had heard of the news of their companions' surrender on the TV and radio, gave in after their government's "President," Johan Manusama, assured them that the Dutch were willing at least to talk about the rebels' political situation in The Netherlands...
...case. Historians estimate that year in, year out, about a third or more of all children died in infancy-in typhoid and smallpox epidemics, of diphtheria, dysentery and respiratory ailments. Measles exacted a frightful toll. And, of course, parents were helpless to do much except pray and wait. The medical "treatments" of the day were themselves a major source of sickness and even death: bloodletting, purging and bizarre concoctions...
...became unintentionally educational in nature, as children copied adult activities, learning their "position" in society, a position then as now connected to one's sex, race and "background." Boys went fishing or hunting; girls played "house" and not incidentally learned to cook. The children of slaves learned to wait on other (white) children, as well as assist their parents in various menial tasks. Children of the rich were given dancing lessons, learned how to eat, dress, walk, talk in the proper way and, not least, how to give orders and receive the lavish attention and regard of others. There...
John Huston has been wanting to make this movie for more than 20 years. It was worth the wait. A mellow, brassy, vigorous movie, rich in adventure and melancholy, The Man Who Would Be King represents the best work Huston has done in a decade. Like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947), The Man Who Would Be King is also a meditation on the excesses of ambition and avarice...
...international hockey supremacy North American fans have been clamoring for since 1972, when the Russians ambushed the N.H.L. stars, winning two and tying one of their first four games. Stunned N.H.L. fans complained that their team had been handicapped by limited training time and unfamiliarity with one another. "Wait until the Russians try to play les Canadiens," people said...