Word: bookstack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Examiners once asked a candidate a question about the depth of the Danube - and were impressed when he replied archly: "Under which bridge?" To prove that they are not merely bookstack grinds, applicants are asked to run 1,000 meters and swim 50 meters. The really well-rounded E.N.A. prospect earns extra points by "audacious tests": flying a glider, parachuting into the school court yard, or climbing the Alps...
...French and Vietnamese was coming to an end. At 15, he was taking part in a "quit-school movement" in Hanoi. Before he was 30, he was helping Ho Chi Minh organize his revolution from a base in China. Though he once taught school in Hanoi, Giap was no bookstack scholar. Two years ago, Giap's foster father, a South Vietnamese Red Cross official in Danang, discussed Giap with British Orientalist P.J. Honey. "He was brilliant, extremely interested in warfare along the lines of Napoleonic strategy, but quarrelsome," said the old man. "He'll get near...