Kurt Vonnegut's "The Barnhouse Effect"
1. At no time were his experiments, as Premier Slezak called them, "a bourgeois (characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns) plot to shackle the true democracies of the world."
2. "Did you give it everything you had?" asked the general dubiously (in a doubtful manner).
3. Many a stouthearted patriot has found himself prone (lying face down) in the tangled bunting and timbers of a smashed reviewing stand.
4. Save for one short, enigmatic (mysterious) message left in my mailbox on Christmas Eve, I have not heard from him since his disappearance a year and a half ago.
In attempt to reclaim holy land
At the Yalta conference, significant concessions were made to the Soviet Union because the Western Allies wanted Soviet Union to join them in their war against Japan. The Yalta Conference was held in the month of February of the year 1945. This conference was held between the British Prime Minister, the Soviet President and the President of the United States.
Lyndon B Johnson became one of the most actively involved president in Vietnamese combat after Kennedy was assassinated