Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ultimate Weapon. Meantime, in remote, malaria-ridden jungles and mountains, squinting down gunsights at their fanatic foe, General Johnson's alumni are proving their mettle. Draftees now comprise more than one-fifth of Army strength in Viet Nam, and account for one-third of the average 1,000 monthly replacements. Each morning's headlines tell the story of their courage...
...summers were spent in a trailer on the shores of Sebago Lake, Me. It was there as a teenager, wandering alone through the forest, that she began to compose. She taught herself to play the guitar "all backwards," inventing her own finger patterns and "32 different tunings, which account for the strange flavor of my music." With the aid of a Government loan, she entered the University of Massachusetts, studied Oriental philosophy and elementary education. An honor student, she graduated in 1963 and went to Manhattan, sat in on a hootenanny at a Greenwich Village folk den, was immediately offered...
...Josephy Jr. From 1805 to 1877, Oregon's Nez Perce Indians were engaged in an epic struggle to preserve their identity; 750 of them retreated across four states until they were surrounded by U.S. troops and forced onto reservations. Author Josephy has written a big, thoroughly researched account of the trek...
...measured in watts or megawatts (millions of watts), not in megavolts. And anyone with a feel for electric power systems would immediately recognize 1,500 megavolts (1,500,000,000 volts) as an impossibly high voltage in any case. TIME was not alone in having this problem. Your account was more accurate from the standpoint of terminology and general understanding than most of the television coverage and newspaper accounts of the event...
...History does indeed repeat itself. In your account a rescue-team member called out to some people trapped in an elevator in the Empire State Building: "Are there any pregnant women aboard?" and received the well-timed answer: "Why we've hardly even...