Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such is Viet Nam, disgusted with colonialism and its vices, frustrated in its yearning for freedom, that a leader's integrity is more important than his ability. Communist Ho has built popular support not altogether with wiliness and Communist doctrine, but also with incorruptibility and his undeviating enmity for French colonial rule. Ngo Dinh Diem brings into the battle an incorruptibility even greater and his own record of a lifetime's opposition to French rule and influence. "There are only two real leaders in Viet Nam," Ho's chief of staff, General Vo Nguyen Giap, recognized some...
...ailing, 87-year-old mother still lives behind a wall to keep off evil spirits), he is of the upper class, and he talks without self-consciousness of "the little people." He is proud of his Vietnamese heritage: "We are a country of principles, an old country, a country built village by village. Viet Nam is a solid thing . . ." And he is reluctant to change it, but: "Sometimes I think we Asians are too reserved, talk too much by nuance. We ought to learn to be rude in our talk like the Americans, and get things done." Diem rarely speaks...
...inspector in the Soviet Union stopped before a dilapidated building. "This place looks as if it had never been repaired," he told the caretaker. "That's right," said the caretaker. "It's just been built...
...size, floor, and bathroom facilities were probably among the original criteria. But the Department admits that there is no standard system for applying these criteria. In addition, the price of a given room depends on such factors as the view, which may have changed appreciably since the dormitory was built...
...There, harassed by "snakes, ticks and other insects," and "in the presence of lions," they shot the backgrounds for the picture. For one scene the studio hired 3,000 Zulu warriors, shipped them by plane and oxcart to the Valley of the Thousand Hills in Natal province, and there built a small city named "Zanuckville" to house them...