Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such veiled threats can prove to be a two-edged sword. They can maintain interest in the campaign at a high pitch, but they are also likely to infuriate enough Congressmen to wreck all chances of achieving significant legislative gains...
...embattled Army scout team deep inside Viet Cong country in November when his "Jolly Green Giant" rescue helicopter was raked by automatic weapons and exploded in flames. His clothes afire, Young was severely burned. Disregarding his own injuries, he gave first aid to a stunned survivor from the wreck, then waved off rescuers after spotting an enemy flak trap. Drifting in and out of shock for 17 hours, Young hobbled and crawled six miles to a clearing before signaling for help...
...that crummy check that they're afraid to say boo." Down Salinas way, in the bean-and-lettuce country celebrated by Steinbeck, leather-handed migrant workers?some of them Latin-Americans, whose 2,000,000 poor rank second only to Negroes in the U.S.?work the fields and wreck the saloons in an epic cycle of productivity and degradation. Many men stagger into the fields to chop weeds for $1.40 an hour until they have enough for another binge. Others grind out an endless season of stoop labor to keep their families barely abreast of the poverty line...
...first four-year students--Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck and Joel Iacoomis (both class of 1665)--died before they could carry their Harvard education to the pulpit. A few days before Commencement, Joel was killed in a ship-wreck off Nantucket in which those who escaped drowning were "murthered by some wicked Indians of that place." His classmate Caleb survived long enough to become Harvard's only Indian College graduate--but died a few months later...
...voting and demonstrating that the divisions within the Democratic Party were indeed deep.> ROBERT F. KENNEDY, Senator from New York, all along the likeliest man to challenge the President, but inhibited by fear that to join the fray would sunder the party, expose him to charges of opportunism, and wreck his hopes of assuming the office that his brother held so briefly...