Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helicoptered artillery, rocket-firing choppers and tactical air support. Giap's men finally broke and ran, and the 1st Air Cav relentlessly pursued them in a campaign culminating in the battle of la Drang Valley, where the slaughter of 2,262 of his men was a hideous revelation to Giap of the new kind of war and enemy that he faced...
...more I should like to mention. The modern physician is losing some of his identification with the community, not because of specialization or lack of interest, but because he is swept up in the inexorable force of urbanization which brings with it the kind of impersonal relationship brought into hideous focus by the refusal of certain New Yorkers to go to the aid of their fellow citizens being attacked by outlaws of the city. The physician too, if he is a product of the city, develops a certain indifference to the health problems of his community, although he may have...
...told the Government all about his work as a Communist spy, and had testified in 1951 as a vital Government witness in the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "I have wiped the slate clean as far as it is possible," he said. "I made a hideous mistake...
...black in the mouth, and his tongue swoln that he could not speak, his lips shrunk to the gums; and he knocked his breast with his hands until one of his arms fell off, what time the fat, water, and blood dropped out at his finger ends." More hideous still was the burning of Perrotine Massey who, "being great with child, did fall on her side in the fire, where as the belly of the woman brast asunder, the infant fell into the fire, and being taken out was had to the bailiff, who gave censure that it should...
Physicians today write papers about the problems involved in "the management of death" and debate how to handle (in that most hideous of jargon phrases) the "terminal case." There can only be gratitude for the elimination of suffering-but "management of death" raises difficult questions...