Word: bended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five U.S. soldiers were killed and twelve wounded during a Communist commando attack on Phuoc Binh, the capital of Phuoc Long province. That marked the Viet Cong's first offensive against the picturesque hill town of about 25,000 people located 75 miles north of Saigon on a bend of the Song Be River. Last week, after a violent six-day siege of the city, the Communists finally captured Phuoc Binh. During the drive they also took a key crossroads and two airstrips, as well as every village and town in Phuoc Long province (see map). Though the Communists...
...looks up too sweetly and asks, "What sall we twow in next?" Thud. Obvious lines fed from one character to another abound, and Brooks often repeats his favorite gags, good or bad, with little regard for the audience's tolerance. You can see a joke coming from around the bend...
...meeting with the oil importers from the West and the developing world. The French have strongly favored a conference. Kissinger has held out for a delay until the consumers are more firmly united, fearing that countries that are deeply in debt and heavily dependent on oil imports would easily bend to OPEC's bidding. At Martinique three weeks ago, President Ford and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing struck a compromise calling for a series of meetings: first a general feeling-out between OPEC and the consumers, then a number of meetings among consumers to work out their common...
...annual ritual took a bizarre turn last week when Notre Dame's Ara Parseghian announced that he was stepping down. Before the shock wave subsided in South Bend, Notre Dame officials triggered another with the word that as Ara's replacement they had chosen Dan Devine, who was about to get his walking papers from the National Football League's Green Bay Packers...
...Monday Notre Dame makes its first appearance ever in Cambridge, having trounced Harvard, 5-2, at South Bend Ind., during Christmas break last year. Sophomore Brian "Dukie" Walsh, a former Matignon High School star, has earned 27 points to lead the Irish, who stand 7-8-1 with a game against Boston College scheduled for this Sunday...