Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Even as he spoke, U.S. air cavalrymen thrust into Cambodia's Kompong Cham province, located inside a Communist-infested zone called "the Fishhook." Their mission: a strike at the Communist high command hidden in groups of heavy concrete bunkers at several points beyond the border. Farther south, troops of the South Vietnamese army (ARVN), aided by U.S. advisers, helicopters and medical teams, swept into another Communist stronghold known as "the Parrot's Beak," located only 35 miles from Saigon. U.S. planes, meanwhile, began bombing the three other sanctuaries. By week's end the two ground forces reported a combined enemy...
...keeping the peace in New Haven, officials had reason to worry. The Justice Department had reports that shotguns and rifles purchased by Panthers were transported to New Haven. Panthers and members of the ultramilitant white Weathermen brought dynamite into the city, according to police intelligence, and the Panther command ordered each of its chapters to send their most skillful dynamiters, planning to place them under the command of Robert Webb and John Turner, both known as "demolition experts...
There is considerable dissembling on both sides. The Japanese case could probably command greater support among U.S. free-traders if Japan were not itself more protectionist than any other developed nation. It has grown rapidly to economic maturity behind a barricade of restrictions, which once were justifiable as a shield for so-called infant industries. Japanese attitudes have not caught up with the country's important new trading role...
...shame, however, at this point, is black as he considers reputation. Command returns the moment reputation yields to woman...
...positively regains the self-command which makes possible pure heroic action. The two suicides- as triumphs over Caesar- represent the greatest heroic acts possible in the world. Suicide is the last act to make life comprehensible. It is purified of self-contempt and vain resignation by the capture, through the suffering of shame, of that internal fire which burns the will clear. It is exonerated from the deeper vanity of despair, or storic contemptus mundi, by the perfect fusion of hand and heart. Decretas dispels all ambiguity...