Word: arroyos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victory at the Arroyo. As the day darkened, the sky a shroud of smoke, the Nationalists concentrated four battalions and 18 armored cars against the sandbagged Binh Xuyen strongpoints. In the European quarter, French colonials and a few Americans sipped apéritifs on balconies and watched the distant show-most Frenchmen rooting for the terrorists and most Americans for Ngo Dinh Diem. Soon the news looked bad for the French: the young Nationalists, it seemed, were fighting with efficiency and fervor. During the night the Nationalists attacked and knocked out half a dozen Binh Xuyen strongpoints, one after...
...battle's second day the Binh Xuyen fell back across the Chinese Arroyo, an evil-smelling canal on the southern edge of Saigon, blowing the bridges. The Nationalists regrouped, and in the evening they crossed the canal on both of the Binh Xuyen flanks, clobbering them, driving the terrorists clean out of town. The Nationalists destroyed the headquarters of the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien, the place where he kept his pet crocodiles. Only three Binh Xuyen posts remained; they were inside the cordoned-off French quarter. "Your courage has written a glorious page," Diem proclaimed...
...Rose Bowl stadium at Pasadena is in the Arroyo Seco, which means dry gulch. But last week the field was anything but that; it was a sea of mud. Rain fell throughout the game. TV Announcer Mel Allen, who seemed to have been briefed by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, spoke first of an "overcast," then of a "mist," and finally, quite frankly of rain ("How about that...
...best scene, a violent cavalry battle in a cliff-closed arroyo through which the horses charge with a fine splatter of hooves, is so thrilling that moviegoers will probably not mind its resemblance to a scene in a 1944 Joel McCrea picture, Buffalo Bill...
...wetback has drowned. It swirls between banks of cactus and mesquite down 1,800 miles of rich, irrigated farmland to the Gulf of Mexico. Last week most of the lower Rio Grande, from Laredo (pop. 51,910) to its mouth at the southernmost tip of Texas, was a dry arroyo; at Laredo, the river ran dry for the first time since the International Water Commission began keeping records 52 years ago. Goats pattered across the stony bed to the Mexican side; Mexican police fired warning shots to head off straggling cattle which tried to cross to the U.S. bank...