Word: closed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remind you of the Russian occupation of the southern half of Sakhalin Island (north of Japan) and the Kuril Islands (northeast of Japan)? These territories, formerly owned and populated by Japan, are now exclusively occupied by the Soviet Union. Japanese fishing boats that stray too close to these islands are often seized or fired upon. To the best of my knowledge, both areas are sealed off from normal tourist or business travelers...
...heaviest-since the infamous Tet offensive of 1968. From U.S. military bases to provincial cities to the psychological payoff target of Saigon, rocket shells and terrorist bombs exploded with deadly frequency. They were followed, especially at U.S. outposts and forward bases, by ground assaults that forced many units into close combat. As a result, the American death toll for each of the past two weeks rose above 300 for the first time in nearly two months -which is precisely where headline-conscious Communist strategists would like to keep...
...went back to the hall night after night. The Lewis band played there three nights a week at that time, and although they were all old men, I think they must have been playing close to their peaks...
...asleep, but woke up soon after I came in. He smiled his wonderful smile. His eyes were brilliant. "Hi, Tommy," he said. He showed that stoic indifference to death which he had lived by for most of his life. Possibly no other man who ever lived has been so close to death so many times...
...confrontation with an interested, bespeckled administrator who wanted to know why you had to paint that fence and why you thought your boredom was more profound than that of an eight-year-old who got tired of the same old toys (you never said it was, but you were close enough to eight to remember vaguely that eight-year-old Weltschmerz was a lot profounder than the man talking...