Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk as a reminder of his Viet Nam service as a Special Forces lieutenant-service that won him a Bronze Star. At his home in Atlanta, he has a photo of a Viet Cong he killed in face-to-face combat. Explains Graham: "I didn't want to die. I figured the best way not to was to become a good soldier. I also went to Viet Nam with the best intentions of doing whatever I had to do for my country...
...been rivals in the courtship of established governments and extremist groups, Guinea, the Sudan and several other countries find it difficult to cope with unified Communist pressure. The Soviets, certain that their back door is safe, are willing to take slightly greater risks in the Middle East, but still want to avoid outright...
After Massachusetts, Connecticut has had the best experience with conservation commissions. Working with schools, the commissions have helped to create educational parks. Building public support, they have pressed laws through the state legislature giving tax breaks to farmers and other landowners who want to keep their lands open. Says Gay Ewing, president of the Connecticut Association of Conservation Commissions: "Faced with an environment that's going downhill, people get discouraged about their power to change things. But with a commission on the scene, people begin to feel that they can start to do something...
...court saw it, the Edwardses obviously assumed that their trash cans were private. Said the court: "We can readily ascribe many reasons why residents would not want their castaway clothing, letters, medicine bottles and other telltale refuse and trash to be examined by neighbors or others...
...sermon under the title of "The New Knowledge and the Christian Faith," and arranged to have it and subsequent homilies widely distributed. When John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered Fosdick the pulpit at the fashionable Park Avenue Baptist Church in 1925, the controversial preacher at first refused. "I do not want to be known as the pastor of the richest man in the country," he said in an exchange that has become famous. Answered Rockefeller: "Do you think that more people will criticize you on account of my wealth than will criticize me on account of your theology...