Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Operation White Wing, mounted by 12,000 men of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry, Vietnamese airborne and South Korean marines, the first division-size assault of the war. Target: the longtime Viet Cong strongholds between Qui Nhon and Chu Lai along the South China...
...Operation Double Eagle, dovetailing on the north with White Wing, made up of 5,000 U.S. Marines off amphibious assault craft driving south and west toward the Communist enclave of An Lao valley, with flanking support from 2,000 government soldiers...
...underneath paradise were the ubiquitous mole holes of the Viet Cong -an estimated 3,000 strong in the area. It was, as one U.S. officer put it, "V.C. Fat City-mighty pleasant living for them." That came to an abrupt end early one rainy morning when the first helicopter assault forces of the 1st Air Cav took off from Moore's staging area, called "Dog," and headed for LZ-4, a landing zone nestled between two villages...
...Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Preminger lost the battle (49 stitches) and the book (sold to Director Richard Brooks for more than $500,000), but now he's feeling better. Just before he stalked into New York City Criminal Court to charge Lazar with felonious assault, Preminger acquired the rights to Author John Hersey's upcoming novel, Too Far to Walk, which will give all the gory details on college life...
...goes without saying that the most enriched people of all are the audiences. In the brief decade or so when the new Elizabethans have come of age, their benign assault on the public sensibilities in Britain has deepened men's insights as well as their enjoyment. Theater, British style, is no longer a let's pretend. It is for real...