Word: bac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting, in the wooded hills and tilled valleys of a scenic region called the Viet Bac, was shrouded behind military secrecy on both sides and by a cloud cover that thwarted satellite observation. Hanoi issued regular self-serving communiques; Peking's announcements were so cryptic as to be meaningless. Said one Hong Kong observer: "It's like hearing a couple of cats squawling in the middle of the night ?they're making a helluva racket, but you don't know if they are fighting or making love." From the start of hostilities, however, it was all too obvious that...
...French-German-Spanish company that is now struggling to keep production lines open and sell enough planes to break even. No European-made passenger jets have been bought by U.S. carriers since the 1960s, when American Airlines and several other carriers took delivery of a flock of British BAC One-Elevens, and United purchased 20 French Caravelles. To win the key Eastern sale, Airbus Industrie offered the airline an in expensive lease deal to try out the planes...
...days. Lissome Saigonese women wore hip-hugging jeans and colorful ao-dais; although the P.R.G. frowns on prostitution, streetwalkers and bar girls were still hawking their charms. American pop songs blared out from the jukeboxes of cafes and bars, and the old Thieves' Market on Bac Si Calumette Street was jammed with TV sets, cameras and transistor radios tak en from abandoned American...
Fearful Aloft. Wallace insists that 1976 will be his last campaign. "For one thing," he explains, "I'm tired of flying through thunderstorms." He has leased a $47,000-a-month BAC 1-11 (it has been named Trust the People) that transports 23 people in oil-baron style. But Wallace is still fearful aloft. Nor, at 56, can he count on his health holding up for another campaign (see MEDICINE). If he is denied the Democratic nomination-a virtual certainty-he is not sure what he will do. Though splinter groups want to run him on a third...
...WELCOME, COMRADE, read the headline in the London Daily Mail. Just in case the visitor failed to get the message, the paper repeated it in Russian: Mbl BAC HE XOTHM, TOBAPHIU.The comrade was Politburo Member Alexander Shelepin, whose 48-hour visit to Britain last week mortified the Labor government, embarrassed the trade unions, and stirred unexpectedly deep reserves of anti-Communist feeling among the British public...