Word: blow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Until a real peace is assured, we are going to need nuclear weapons to deter the Soviet Union and Chinese. But we must move toward less reliance on these weapons. There is something terribly dangerous in the fact that men, with all their possibilities of error and weakness, can blow up the world in an hour or two. So we have to move toward agreement, perhaps beginning by further restrictions on nuclear tests...
...Nhut, where a French military cemetery stands. It took South Vietnamese paratroops two days of headstone-to-headstone and house-to-house battling to drive the Communists out. All week long, battles raged around Saigon's Y Bridge, where snipers and Communist demolition teams, vainly assigned to blow up the forked span, held out against helicopter gunships and jet bombers while U.S. and South Vietnamese armor and infantry slashed at them on the ground. At week's end they came out shooting, trying to escape a tightening "wagon train" ring of allied armor and guns; 88 were killed...
Born. To Lynn Redgrave, 25, comic half (Georgy Girl) of filmdom's sister act (Vanessa's credits include Blow-Up, Camelot), and John Clark, 35, British-born actor (MacBird); their first child, a boy; in London...
...Harvard, Anderson has been known as a tough coach. This year, despite some bad breaks, he engineered an undefeated season. At the beginning of the year Monk Terry, the outstanding lightweight stroke, decided to move up to heavies. His loss was a real blow, but Andersen juggled his men and came up with a championship boat. He adopted the new Stampfli boat this year and his oarsmen had to get used to that...
...meat skewer, his septum stimulated by a broom straw, and his frontal lobe pummeled with an incessant and derivative yak about the spiritual union between the tormented and the tormentor. The pedantic sadist is Colonel Sun of the People's Liberation Army of China, who wants to blow up some Russians and then blame the incident on the West. Bond's problem is to stop him. The reader has no problem except to try to enjoy himself while awaiting the obvious...