Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since U.S. B-29 bombers leveled Emperor Hirohito's palatial quarters within Tokyo's moat-encircled imperial compound in May 1945, the imperial family has made do with modest quarters, first the palace air-raid shelter and, since 1961, a 15-room house in the palace compound. Five years ago it was decided that proper settings for the Emperor's ceremonial occasions could no longer be delayed. The architect picked for the honor of designing the Emperor's $25.5 million palace: Junzo Yoshimura, now 56, a professor in Tokyo's University of Fine Arts...
...defenders fell back on a wall and wire-bound compound as the Viet Cong slaughtered women and children hiding in nearby dugouts. Though U.S. and North Vietnamese planes arrived with the dawn, rolling great red gouts of napalm through the Communist positions and lacing the underbrush with white phosphorus and cannon fire, the Viet Cong hung on. A relief force fluttered in by helicopter, but was quickly pinned down and wiped out by the attackers. Other chopper-borne rescuers were driven off by ground fire. Dongxoai seemed ready to fall...
...Corps, employed the rarest of weapons in the Saigon arsenal: imagination. Guessing that the Viet Cong had already overrun the protected jungle clearings where relief helicopters could be expected to land, Vien sent 40 choppers loaded with troops swooping suddenly onto a soccer field adjacent to the defenders' compound. Before the Viet Cong could react, the bulk of the 52nd Ranger Battalion was on the ground and fighting. By the following morning, the Communist attackers had had enough. They faded like smoke into the jungle, leaving behind 700 dead. The defenders' toll was terrible too: at least...
Thunder in the Compound. The bold est bit of Red butchery took place at Bagia, a tiny hamlet near Quangngai (see map, opposite page), where three South Vietnamese battalions were mousetrapped and mowed down in the worst single battle of the war to date...
Chernoff found that an experimental compound, cyclobutadiene, was sprayed on Yard flora last Tuesday and Wednesday. "In small amounts this substance can cause characteristic disturbances of physical and mental functions," he explained. "It is not terribly dangerous, but the results can be alarming...