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Kirk begins with Edmund Burke, founder of a great line of British-American conservatives. Son of a Dublin lawyer, devout Anglican, party manager of the Whigs, Burke lived in an England torn and undermined by the philosophy of the French Revolution much as the U.S. in the '305 was torn and undermined by the philosophy of the Communist Revolution. In press, Parliament and public opinion, Burke saw signs that Britain was in danger from the doctrines across the Channel. If his fears now seem exaggerated, that impression is perhaps Burke's greatest achievement. "He succeeded," says Kirk...
...fire only if their own lives were threatened. On the second night, No. 10's inmates assembled inside the stockades, hurled volleys of stones, charged the wire in masses. The U.S. guards fired, killing or wounding more than 100. Some prisoners were trampled to death, others were torn to bits on the wire. Altogether, more than 40 of them died at Inchon. The marines themselves were fired on by "unknown persons" outside the camp perimeter; one was seriously wounded...
...base, the Globemaster slammed steeply into a watermelon patch, broke up and caught fire, skittering bits of burning metal at a frightened Japanese farmer who stood near by. Most, if not all, of the men were killed on impact, which was so great that many bodies were torn from their boots...
...thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most of the city's three-decker tenements, but struck full on a housing project area...
...synonymous. Dinah is an apostle of self-expression, always dressing and undressing her mind to suit the latest intellectual fashion, from Picasso to Kierkegaard. "On visits and at her Bohemian parties, she makes an impression on Rickie. Pretty soon, Rickie's business engagements are mostly monkey business. Torn between his obligations to Madeleine and his two young sons, and the emotional release he feels with Dinah, Rickie's conscience and his stomach both begin hurting...