Word: conned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Khe Sanh and Con Thien to the north, Ben Het, which was completed in 1968, is an isolated fortification of bunkers and barbed wire that sits astride an important infiltration route. Inside its perimeters were 500 Montagnard irregulars led by a South Vietnamese Special Forces team of twelve and twelve U.S. Green Beret advisers. Initially, Ben Het could rely for added protection on the U.S. 4th Infantry Division, which was operating in the surrounding highlands. As part of a redeployment, U.S. infantry forces withdrew from the Ben Het area in April. The responsibility for the base passed...
...Americans are one of the world's most sports-conscious people, yet for years they have not had a President who shared that enthusiasm. President Eisenhower's interest was largely con fined to golf and John Kennedy's to swimming and sailing. In the Johnson years, the principal sport was hunting ranch deer from a Lincoln Continental...
...state to be carved out of one al ready in existence requires approval of both the old state legislature and the U.S. Con gress. New states have been created from the territory of older states before. For example, in 1792, Kentucky and was West formed from Virginia - part also of from part Virginia of Virginia - in 1863. Mailer proposes that the first step, following his election, should be a city-wide referendum on the question of statehood for the city...
...over. When the first Italian westerns washed up on American shores, audiences were delighted with their frenzied hyperbole, their melodramatic distortions of American cinematic folklore. Everyone assumed they were great satire and that Director Sergio Leone was either a big put-on or a superb con man. Leone's newest effort, Once Upon a Time in the West, with a major cast and a lot of big studio money behind it, proves that he is simply a serious bore...
...con into confrontation...