Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recession ?important as those issues are. Across the U.S., the universal fear of violent crime and vicious strangers?armed robbers, packs of muggers, addict burglars ready to trade a life for heroin?is a constant companion of the populace. It is the cold fear of dying at random in a brief spasm of senseless violence?for a few pennies, for nothing...
Anger and Depression. Student demonstrators turned out to be no tiny radical minority. Questioned before the Cambodian incursion, 42% of the students polled said that they had participated in antiwar protests, nearly twice as many as had joined civil rights actions. Out of 100 antiwar demonstrators picked at random, 13 called themselves Republicans, 20 were Democrats, 62 were independents and only five considered themselves radicals. Of the 5,000 students polled, however, more than 40% had altered their political loyalties because of the war. Of these, only 7% increased their commitment to one of the two major parties, the remaining...
...FILE ON STANLEY PATTON BUCHTA by Irvin Faust. 274 pages. Random House...
...three-month-old regime of Premier Lon Nol was faced with the fight of its life. Daily strikes by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops throughout the country could no longer be considered just random harassment designed to wear out Cambodia's army. Instead, the Communists seemed to have embarked upon a new all-out strategy designed to strangle Phnom-Penh. Diplomats in Cambodia speculated that the Communists had decided to try to overthrow the Lon Nol government as quickly as possible -probably within six months...
Suds and Punch. At random, Chien split his subjects into four groups of ten each. Three groups spent an hour each weekday afternoon for nine weeks in the makeshift tavern. The members of one group were given 12 ounces of beer each; those of the second, a glass of nonalcoholic fruit punch; the third, fruit punch containing a dose of thioridazine, a psychotropic (mind-affecting) drug for the treatment of senility. Members of the fourth group, which was established as a control, stayed in the ward and got their usual dose of thioridazine straight...