Word: holocaust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Dangerous Game ended with a moment of silence for the world that had been, before the players brought a nuclear holocaust upon themselves. As the TV cameras blinked off I felt a curious letdown--it was all over. In four weeks we had gotten no further than a large inconclusive war; and then in one final week we had brought the world...
...Many of those who had had time to get down into dogholes beneath the houses were asphyxiated. Spraying fire about in great whooshing arcs, the Viet Cong set everything afire: trees, fences, gardens, chickens, the careful piles of grain from the annual harvest. Huts that somehow survived the fiery holocaust were leveled with grenades. Then the hoses of fire were sprayed down inside the exposed burrows. Later, the Communists incinerated a patch of the main town just for good measure...
...ball of fire shot upward, lighting the whole valley and billowing into a mushroom cloud. The shock wave knocked men off their feet half a mile away and all but destroyed the Special Forces camp. Astonishingly, no one was killed, and only three men were injured in the holocaust...
...certain programs that might be considered conservative, the U.S. public is unlikely to swerve from its liberal course no matter how much a solitary Buckley may prod. But the fun is in the prodding, as far as William Buckley is concerned. And if, through fire, flood, earthquake, atomic holocaust or even conservatism, the present-day liberal U.S. should expire, no one stands to lose more than Buckley. For he enjoys the best of both worlds: a society that is especially vulnerable to criticism from the right and equally willing to take...
Still, Nehemiah's decision is the predictable conclusion of a life of forgetting. He has bequeathed his children a life free of the faintest taint of the holocaust; a life which, despite the benefits of European skills and culture, he would have cherished for himself...