Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armor plate, Major Pham Nha, the Vietnamese Marine battalion commander, made an instant decision to counterattack. "We're in an ambush and we are going in," ordered Nha, without waiting for artillery and air support. Seconds later, Nha's troop carriers rammed into the canal bank and his Marines stormed ashore...
Rocks for Jocks. University of Texas students are fond of courses they call "Kiddie Lit," in which they analyze children's books, "Pots and Pans," a consumer's guide to household equipment, and "Piggy Bank," budget-centered instruction in personal finance. At Cornell, publicity in the Daily Sun ruined a freshman geology course known as "Rocks for Jocks," which is now unusually tough; but Mathematician Leonard Silver, who marks exams in a linear algebra course vaguely as either "swell" or "lousy," still gives nothing but A's. "I'm trying to help the student avoid ulcers...
...Jean IvlacDonald, a 57-year-old widow, went to jail after defying a court order to let a bank appraise her home. It was a matter of principle, she says; she was held in contempt and sent to Cook County Jail. "As I walked through the gates," she remembers, "I saw female prisoners walking around nude from the waist up-in full view of the male guards." But the exhibitionism was homosexual, not heterosexual. Open lesbianism was standard. "It was unbelievable," says Mrs. Macdonald. "Women would take off their clothes, climb on top of tables and indulge in perversions. They...
...candy. But she could do nothing to help a woman in the next cell who was so tormented by her roommates that she tried to commit suicide by putting her head in the toilet and flushing it. After seven days of disgust, Mrs. Macdonald agreed to allow the bank appraisal so that she could...
Paul Wiackowski, Harvard's 6'9" junior who turned in his finest performance ever Saturday, got the rally going again with a follow-up bank shot from the left side. Seconds later, he put in two foul shots...