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Word: put (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...upon a monk dressed in white robes at the end of a ditch. Calley started interrogating the monk, "then he hit him with the butt of his rifle in the mouth ... He [the monk] was sort of like pleading. He was about 40 to 50 years old. Lieut. Calley put his rifle at point blank and pulled the trigger in his face. His head was just blown away." Soon afterward, Sledge heard someone hollering that "there was a child running toward the village. Lieut. Calley grabbed it by the arm, threw it into the ditch and fired." Sledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Lieut. Calley at Bay | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...witness to much of the killing there. His testimony clarifies some of the discrepancies between earlier versions of what took place. He, too, swore that both Calley and Meadlo had fired at groups of civilians. "Continually," he said, "small groups of people were brought up, and they would be put into the ditch and fired upon by Lieut. Calley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Lieut. Calley at Bay | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...grams generate waves throughout the Navy, the main impact among the some 40 ships of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean has been to push all commanders into a new concern for the dependents of their seagoing officers and men. When the U.S.S. Springfield recently put into Malta, more than 20 petty officers' wives from the ship's home port of Gaeta awaited the ship's arrival, because for the first time their husbands were permitted to spend nights ashore at a transient stop. Some 450 men from the carrier John F. Kennedy are flying home for Christmas thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Humanizing the U.S. Military | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Solid Bone. The angry populace soon retaliated. Dentists and doctors turned away electrical workers who tried to take advantage of the slowdown by scheduling appointments. Stores, bars and gas stations refused to serve them. A bus conductor told one power man: "Your lot have put me to a stack of inconvenience. Get off and walk." One of the few signs of support came from unionized workers at London's Evening Standard who walked out and halted late editions in protest against a drawing they considered objectionable. The cartoon pictured the E.T.U. worker as "Homo-electrical-sapiens Britannicus, circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Dark Days in Great Britian | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Some things mean so much to us We can't express them well. We can't put into words the thoughts Our hearts would like to tell. So when you read this Christmas card That comes to you today I hope you'll read between the lines The things my heart would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: IN (FAINT) PRAISE OF CHRISTMAS CARDS | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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