Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-line elements. Hanoi was quick to capitalize on the latter's efforts. Even before the march began, the Viet Cong's "Liberation Press Agency" announced the formation of a "South Viet Nam People's Committee for Solidarity with the American People." Its aim: to cheer on the dissenters and encourage desertion among American and South Vietnamese troops. Said a message to the Mob from North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong: "The Vietnamese people thank their friends in America and wish them great success in their mounting movement...
There were many similar instances of unbelievable devotion and guts from the most unlikely people. But in the end I couldn't help feeling that there was something mock-heroic about it all. When a large group of demonstrators broke through a line of guards, a cheer went up which should have been announcing the storming of the ramparts, the coming of the revolution. Nothing so grand as that, it was, perhaps, the cry of a neglected child who knows that he won't be heard, or if heard will go unheeded...
There were many similar instances of unbelievable devotion and guts from the most unlikely people. But in the end I couldn't help feeling that there was something mock-heroic about it all. When a large group of demonstrators broke through a line of guards, a cheer went up which should have been announcing the storming so grand as that, it was, perhaps, the cry of a neglected child who knows that he won't be heard, or if heard will go unheeded...
...back to Mom in the New York City Borough of Queens, "where I had defenses," might help.' Cold comfort there. "Is that why you called, Harold?" bleats his Yiddisha Mama. "You thought your mother needed a little filth thrown in her face all the way from France?" More cheer is shed by a sexy sylph in a mauve postage-stamp bikini. Miss Janus, delectably played by Brenda Smiley, has a Proust-like remembrance of flings past and an impish vein of insecurity: "I wish I could get to the state where I truly believed my behind was beautiful...
...even gone into Hanoi's outskirts to rescue downed fliers. Every pilot carries a small radio to bring in rescuers-along with a Jolly Green Giant calling card that has rescue instructions and the pledge: "The bearer of this card, upon being suitably rescued, agrees to provide free cheer at the nearest bar for those making said rescue possible." More than 200 American pilots have been glad to pay off that debt...