Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support has been crucial. When they have floundered, the problem has been that perennial ARVN soft spot, poor leadership. U.S. military men give high marks to a number of top officers, among them General Ngo Quang Truong, commander of IV Corps, and Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, whose 21st Division cleared the treacherous U Minh forest in the Mekong Delta in a tough but little-noted operation last year. Even so, most U.S. advisers below the rank of major speak of their Vietnamese counterparts with condescension if not outright contempt...
...being written today. It was in Schoenberg's and Stravinsky's generation that the decline set in. Béla Bartók is a musical personality of some stature, but Stravinsky is the Rimsky-Korsakov of this generation. I am willing to bet that in the 21st century Stravinsky won't be played very much...
Adds Michigan Supreme Court Justice Thomas E. Brennan: "Our technology is already in the 21st century. It is time for the legal profession to embark on a bold new adventure...
...dollar trust fund that Alexander and Christina will begin to enjoy on Dec. 11-provided Daddy Ari approves. Alexander has begun dismissing talk about Fiona as "nonsense," and Christina has gone off to London, leaving Husband Bolker at home to cancel the invitations he had sent out for her 21st birthday party...
What is most interesting about the vote is that it marked a tremendous change in Philadelphia's traditional voting patterns. Rizzo won substantially in the traditionally Republican, Italian and Irish wards. He carried the 21st Ward on the Northeast side, for example, with about 60 per cent of the vote. Before Tuesday, Ward 21, which is mostly Italian, but includes some working class Jews, had voted for every Republican candidate for Mayor since the Civil...