Word: roundedness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Dickens' feeling of being let down by his mother was the first of several jolts to his self-indulgent idealization of women. At 21 he tried to place a girl named Maria Beadnell in the role of an angelic object of worship. She ended by jilting him. Later he...
Then the prosecution's last witness took the stand. He was James Dursi, 23, a rifleman in Calley's platoon, who recently applied for a job as a New York City cop. He reinforced the testimony of both Sledge and Turner, then added a weird example of the...
In 1965 the Egyptians rounded up a number of West Germans as a precautionary measure before a visit by East German Boss Walter Ulbricht. When the police searched Lotz's home, they discovered that he had been spying for the Israelis. Since the 1968 prisoner exchange, Lotz has lived...
Before Indonesia's President Suharto departed on a foreign tour this fall, he paused for a special ceremony. One of Indonesia's dukuns (soothsayers) had predicted a possible disaster for the country in late 1970, and sacrificial rites were duly scheduled. Several water buffalo were rounded up and...
On the surface, the principal accomplishment of the nation's third biggest automaker this year would seem to have been avoiding disaster. In the first quarter, Chrysler lost only $29 million, rather than the $40 million that Wall Street had anticipated. In June it rounded up $800 million of...