Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junction of the Great Plains and the Rockies, stands 600-ft.-high Table Mountain, a grassy mesa populated until recently largely by deer, summer hikers and an occasional coyote. Now, through the clear, crisp air, Boulderites daily behold a new sight on Table Mountain: a taut, pure compound of rusty pink cylinders and cubes that soars skyward above them...
...children: 14year-old Anh is in a convent school in Dalat; six-year-old Loc lives at home in the family's modest military quarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. There Thieu, who likes flowers, dabbles some evenings with a trowel, or walks through the compound with an air rifle, shooting birds that are cooked and served to dinner guests. His real love is weekend fishing with cracked crab bait in the Saigon River or in the South China...
advisers' compound and freeing 1,200 inmates of the province prison (352 of whom elected to stay behind rather than flee with their liberators). In Saigon's Chinese quarter of Cholon, Viet Cong squads boldly entered four movie theaters and stopped the shows to warn the audiences not to vote...
...fort's forested hills, turned loose, and told to evade mock aggressor forces patrolling the 7½-sq,-mi. area. Of 133 artillerymen who took the course one day recently, fewer than 30 got away. The rest were marched, often barefoot, to a simulated P.O.W. compound...
...struck first at Hopson's chancellery in Peking. On the dot of the ultimatum's expiration, even though all but 18 of the 19 prisoners had been routinely released, hundreds of Red Guards pushed past acquiescent Red Army and police guards. They crowded into the British diplomatic compound, shouting Mao-think slogans in English and French and throwing Molotov cocktails. Inside were 23 British diplomats, women and children. The mob set the chancellery afire, forcing the British to come out; nine of them, including Hopson, were beaten and kicked before being turned loose...