Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Administration's defense policy has been to improve the U.S.'s ability to wage limited war-and, specifically, to fortify weaker allies in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa against Red-led guerrilla insurrections. To that end, the Army has souped up its crack Special Forces instruction teams (TIME, March 2). Early last year. Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay ordered his staff to figure out how to provide air support for anti-guerrilla operations...
...Castro. Before long, thousands of people jammed seven blocks of the business district. When a loudspeaker truck appeared, urging all to go home, promising that food would soon be abundant, the mob overturned the truck, forced the driver to yell, "Down with Communism!" The riot was not quelled until crack troops arrived and occupied the town after sporadic shooting. The toll of wounded or dead is not known; an estimated 400 demonstrators were jailed...
Teddy blared into town behind a crack brass band to find a prearranged crowd, replete with pretty girl workers, awaiting him outside the hotel. Pulled up on a sound truck, Teddy began to speak-and his chopping gestures, his thrust-out chin, his flat inflections and staccato cadences were more than slightly familiar...
...committees are, if anything, even tougher nuts to crack. Here the Dean's most important function lies in his capacity as chairman of the Committee on Educational Policy that makes the key recommendations on the floor of the Faculty. Sometimes (as Bundy did with the Committees on Gen Ed and Advanced Standing) the Dean must juggle committees and departments whose aims are opposite to rejuvenate each of them...
Expensive Laurels. Many of Britain's 10,500 Gurkha soldiers belong to the fourth consecutive generation that has fought for the Crown. Even the crack Guards regiments are no more highly rated than the brown, merry-faced Gurkhas, who seldom measure more than a few inches above the minimum 5 ft. required by the British army. They are renowned for their gentleness off the battlefield, but on it unflinchingly uphold their slogan: Kafar Hone Bhanda Morne Ramro, meaning, Better to die than live a coward. They believe that war is heaven-or at least the best way of getting...