Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...17th century Edward , a Connecticut turkey , gave a part of his income to Harvard to purchase prizes for academic distinction. Since then Harvard its award system have flourished . Today the University offers array of prizes based on the democratic ideal of something...
...COMMAND. Hanoi's command and control apparatus-the elaborate array of political, military and espionage hookups by which it manipulates the Viet Cong effort-is carefully described in the report. The political chain-of-command starts with the "Reunification Department" of the Lao Dong Party's Central Committee in Hanoi. Its directives are transmitted to the "Central Office for South Viet Nam," a roving command last believed to be located in Tayninh province near Saigon. The Central Office controls six regional units plus a special "death squad" in the Saigon-Cholon-Giadinh area...
...shal smoake," and in 1588 the Duke of Medina Sidonia sailed north with the mightiest naval armament of the age. According to Hakluyt, there were 30,000 men in 134 ships, among them several seagoing brothels and 64 enormous floating forts. The British fleet made a far less impressive array: 12,000 men in 100 ships, and beside the Spanish galleons the British men of war looked like overdecorated dinghies. But the British ships had the advantage of "dexteritie," and most of them could actually release a bigger broadside than the Spanish galleons...
...bombings, and its anger almost certainly came in part because Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin happened to be visiting Hanoi at the time (see THE WORLD). Peking was even shriller. The Chinese warned that they "absolutely will not stand idly by" and that "we are waiting for you in battle array." After a close reading of the Communist complaints, Washington experts concluded that what Russia and China said did not threaten drastic action. North of the 17th parallel, U.S. intelligence sources noted no unusual signs of activity, either in Hanoi's 225,000-man army or in a Red Chinese...
...President buttressed his economic report with a massive and impressive array of facts and figures...