Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to engage the Viet Cong, Americans and South Vietnamese have stepped up their "search and clear" thrusts into Communist-held territory, using flame throwers, gas and explosives to flush the Viet Cong from their tunnels, leveling whole forest areas to chop snipers from the trees. Turning the tables, crack Marine sharpshooters are now carrying hunting rifles equipped with telescopic sights able to zero in on guerrillas from afar. B-52s have begun making tandem runs over Viet Cong tunnel areas, first with deep-penetration bombs that bore into the earth, then with a second wave of conventional bombs that...
...apparently the support of older Oxonians that gave Blunden, who is 69 years old, his victory. Many reportedly felt that the older candidate should have first crack at the job. Dr. Edid Starkie, noted lecturer in French literature and Blunden's campaign manager, said that she would be happy to support Lowell for the chair in five years...
...Stevenson Wit, which Adler thought up shortly before Adlai Stevenson died, reminds readers that Stevenson was a singularly lighthearted and amusing man. There is, for example, his rallying call during the 1952 presidential campaign: "Eggheads unite-you have nothing to lose but your yolks!" Not to mention his wry crack after the election: "When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be President, and I believed it." Or the comment he made in 1960 when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always...
...infiltration of Red troops from North Viet Nam has increased markedly; some 6,000 men have slipped across the border in the past month. Military intelligence in Saigon reported two 10,000-man Communist divisions -one of crack North Vietnamese regulars, the other a veteran Viet Cong outfit-massed in central Viet Nam, readying twin assaults in the highlands and near the sea. Allied units were also poised for a major offensive. They were reinforced last week by 7,000 more American troops, swelling the total U.S. force in Viet Nam to 191,000. The fighting to come may well...
...Threats. The approach to education is similarly less harsh. While classroom attendance is normally compulsory, teachers do not browbeat the boys into studying. "As soon as you crack down on them, they just freeze," explains a teacher at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles. The kids have to be stimulated to learn, rather than threatened. "Threats are useless," contends Sam Jones, a teacher at the Fred C. Nelles School for Boys in Whittier, Calif. "These kids have been threatened by masters...