Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suicidal Attacks. Two crack South Vietnamese units hold the front: the airborne division and the marine division. Opposed to them are some of the best troops Hanoi can put in the field: elements of the 304th, 308th, 312th and 320th NVA Divisions, recently reinforced by regiments from the 325th, which had been stationed in Laos. Both sides have suffered heavily in the fighting. During October and November, Quang Tri was shelled by 2,000 to 3,000 rounds of artillery and rocket fire every day; more recently, 500 rounds a day has been the average figure. The South Vietnamese estimate...
...everyone here loves Managua, especially now that it is a shrine." That apparently goes for General Somoza too. "I'm not moving," he told me late one night. "I built my house according to specifications so that it would stand up in quakes. There's only one crack in my house. Why should I move...
...plane B-52 formation, or "cell." While a cell's electronic defenses can cope with a number of incoming missiles, volleys as large as those were difficult to block completely. And because the B-52s lack the agility of the smaller U.S. planes, they cannot dodge missiles that crack the B-52s' defenses, or, with their huge supply of inflammable fuel, survive a SAM hit as Phantoms sometimes...
...keeps the political flame of the Isaacsons alive by participating in Radcliffe radicalism; she acts with confident reflex, but she lacks a real family and when her brother and certain radical friends do not co-operate to form a revolutionary foundation with an Isaacson trust fund, she begins to crack. Her attempt at suicide in a Howard Johnson's wash room--an attempt which ends in schizophrenia and leads to her death-- finally causes Daniel to investigate his roots...
...cause of the problem? A lack of good plays? The unions? The exodus to the suburbs? The economy? A major factor is the decline of the Times Square-Broadway neighborhood, with its prostitutes, massage parlors and porno emporiums. Producer David Merrick complains of "those wise guys who like to crack jokes on TV about being bumped on the head in the streets of New York...