Word: aimlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lines of police. Leather-jacketed young men hurled Molotov cocktails, which burst into flowers of orange flame and clouds of oily smoke. In a doorway a young girl, her eyes streaming from tear gas, screamed at the police: "Executioners!" Dangerous but disorganized the mob fought furiously, but with an aimless fury born of frustration...
...ricos' right wing, a group of introspective jeans-wearers have "found" themselves-and are busily analyzing the drives and motives of angry ones still lost. Like others of their kind around the world, they blame the aimless drifting on a lack of a creed or an ideal to believe and work...
...grief seems simple-inward weeping set off by a breath of perfume from a bathroom cabinet, or the sudden spaciousness of his bed. Then, wallowing in his sadness, Berman turns on everyone who offers comfort. Even his married daughter, who tries to mother him, is stung by his quick, aimless angers, his sullen preference for the inanities of television instead of the company of friends and family. And though Berman himself is bewildered, he has no words with which to explain, no grace with which to apologize. He begins to rage against God. Toward the end of his long season...
...glory-the achievement of an improbable military objective by an unbeatable combination of painstaking plans and inspired improvisation. Lucas Phillips reports it all, from the first casual conversations of Lord Louis Mountbatten with his staff to the final, hush-hush training exercise off the Scilly Isles, from the apparently aimless bombing raid on St. Nazaire to the escape attempts of captured British commandos...
...Landing. More and more cars came in from the countryside scarred by stonings, and the occupants told of being dragged from their homes, beaten and searched for arms. Hundreds of whites camped in the embassies. Unruly bands of soldiers roamed the streets, leaderless and apparently aimless. At one point they all rushed off to the Léopoldville airport because they had heard a rumor that three planeloads of Russian paratroops had landed to take over the Republic of the Congo...