Word: sim
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...engagement ring to Scrooge because he has a new passion, for Gain. Briscusse shows the whole courtship to the background of a song called "Happiness Is," or something like that. Pure, thick soup. The level of intelligence is nowhere near an old version of A Christmas Carol, with Alistair Sim, in which the Fezziwig episode was padded much more effectively by having Scrooge ruin Fezziwig and heartlessly take over his business...
...Cambodia, the U.S. invasion tended to obscure that fact in the eyes of other neutrals. Even without the U.S. and South Vietnamese assault, it is hard to say whether Cambodia would have got much help from outside nations. "The war in Viet Nam has gone on too long," says Sim Var, a member of the Cambodian National Assembly. "People have been rendered insensible to suffering. Even war for a just cause fails to arouse them." Whether the Communists wanted to overthrow the Lon Nol government before the invasion is debatable-just as it is uncertain whether they hope...