Word: 39th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bordered Route 9. Out on the flanks, where elite airborne and ranger units clung to rugged hilltop fire bases, Communist toops launched a series of furious assaults. First blood was drawn at an outpost about 14 miles inside Laos, where the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) 39th Ranger battalion held out valiantly against a North Vietnamese force of regimental strength for three days before abandoning its positions. By the time the survivors had hacked their way through to another base two miles away, no fewer than 323 of 500 Rangers were dead, wounded or missing...
...celebrates his 39th birthday this week, Edward M. Kennedy enjoys a unique political vista: theoretically at least, he could be running for President in the elections of 1992, when he will be merely a mellow...
...university has been hit by bomb scares 39 times in 10 days-the 39th occurring at the Friday night meeting itself-and threats have disrupted classrooms and forced evacuation ofdormitories repeatedly throughout the day and night...
...taxes and the sale of mineral rights. They indulged in lavish whims-concubines, opulent palaces, bejeweled elephants, retinues of servants, strings of polo ponies, sumptuous celebrations. The Nizam of Hyderabad, who was the richest of all with wealth estimated at $2 billion, collected mountains of pearls. To celebrate his 39th birthday, the Gaekwar of Baroda was saluted by solid-gold cannons. Another rajah proudly tooled around in a gold-plated limousine...
Talking Boards. Now a distinguished German ethnographer has offered a fresh solution to the puzzle. The Incas, Dr. Thomas S. Barthel told the 39th International Congress of Americanists in Lima last week, did indeed have a primitive script. It has remained available, though unrecognized, through the centuries. Further, said the Tübingen University professor, he has translated about 25 of the symbols...