Word: findings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...nature of the Viet Nam War. Where, in another kind of conflict, their men would be heroes, now antiwar groups in their own land denounce the cause for which the men were fighting in language like that used by the enemy. Crank telephone calls interrupt whatever tranquillity they can find. President Nixon has pronounced himself pleased with their patience, but their patience is wearing thin. Increasingly, some of the wives complain that the U.S. Government is not doing enough. Some of them have been driven to espouse the offer put forward by the Viet Cong's Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh...
...holds captive, so in some cases the family has not known for three or four years whether son, husband or father is still alive. Timothy Bodden has been missing since June 1967. Says his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Bodden of Downers Grove, Ill.: "Even after 3½ years, I still find myself losing control and breaking down. There is an answer to what's happened to him, but you just don't know what...
...movies. I've had more than one lady say when I've gone out with friends, 'Good heavens, what are you doing out?' And I say 'What am I supposed to do?' He left a very alive individual, and that's what he expects to find when he comes back. I can't go out and date. But I can only put up with these wives [of other P.O.W.s] once or twice a week. They are so depressing." She sums it up simply: "It's a very lonely existence. You're married but you're not married...
Presidents midway through their first term sometimes find their popularity skidding. Harry Truman entered the White House at F.D.R.'s death with a favorable Gallup poll rating of 87%. By October, 1946, the figure dropped to 32%, but Truman won two years later anyway. Particularly interesting in the current Harris poll, however, is the extent of disaffection with Nixon's conduct in this fall's campaigns. Among those polled, 6% rated his campaign performance as "excellent," 29% as "pretty good," 25% as "only fair," and 30% as "poor...
...belt and pulled out the Luger and walked into the other room and shone the flashlight at Tony on the couch, and I shot him, I believe, through the forehead. I believe he was having intercourse with my daughter also. They all ruined my daughter." Garland then tried to find Donna Sue in one of the other apartments. Finally Martha Garland got him outside. The couple drove immediately to the police station...