Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thank him very much for another try." In fact, the Administration was fiercely yet helplessly exasperated by Hanoi's skillful use of inconclusive peace hints as a psychological counterweight to its bloody assaults on South Viet Nam. Furthermore, Communist propagandists in South Viet Nam assiduously spread the word that the U.S. was conniving with the North to sell out the Saigon regime and establish a coalition government that would include the Viet Cong...
...color photos of the war were stunning in every sense of the word, the only comment needed to the draft-card-burning shriekers (or should it be shirkers) for peace. All subsequent material seemed superfluous, even frivolous...
...heard it a hundred times," reports Charles DeCarlo, director of automation research for IBM. Along with Buckminster Fuller and Economist Robert Theobald, DeCarlo had been invited to address the assembly. "It was the easiest speech I ever gave," he says. In fact, he could not get a word in edgewise...
While hiding his unhappiness in public, Knudsen told G.M. Chairman James Roche and a few close friends that he would probably leave the auto industry or "look for another assignment" inside it. Word soon got to Henry Ford II, who started the nation's most audacious executive raid in years. "Sure I did it," Ford said last week. "Nobody but me-so I have to take the credit...
John Hersey's Hiroshima, published in 1946, consisted of 35,000 simple, meticulously arranged and muted words that told the story of six people who, a year earlier, had survived the biggest unnatural disaster in history. In that account, eyes ran from sockets, flesh bubbled from bone, a city disappeared in a flash. Yet the damage report was not complete, as Yale Research Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton shows in this compassionate and important study of the malaise that still pollutes the spirits of many survivors. They are known as hibakusha (pronounced hi-bak-sha), which literally means "explosion-affected...