Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million) came unmistakable signs that the austere autocracy of Ho Chi Minh is having trouble with its housekeeping. The rice crop of the devastated Red River Delta is down by 30% to 40%. The worst floods in 70 years have washed out irrigation dikes and dams, endangering the spring planting. Some 700,000 refugees have moved off to the rice-rich south, leaving for Ho their burned farmhouses and untilled land. An additional 10,000 refugees are fleeing the north every week. Refugees from Red Viet Nam reaching the French-held port city...
...retracted, since everyone knew it wasn't the Temple Street George and Harry's at all. It was on a Saturday that notice of the Fraternity elections appeared, omitting Webb Wilson, Jr. '57, much to the dismay of Mr. Wilson's friends and of Phi Gamma Delta, which had elected him. Such injustice had to be corrected in a special notice a few days later. And, of course, it was on a particularly memorable Saturday last November on which the News predicted Yale would beat Harvard in football...
...school Craig settled down and studied hard for the first time in his life, and was a better-than-average student. He became president of his two fraternities (Delta Chi, Delta Theta Phi), acquired the maximum number of cauliflower ears as a member of the university's wrestling team. In his last year of law school, he married his high-school sweetheart, Kathryn Heiliger (they have a son and a daughter), and graduated with a bachelor of law degree in 1932. A big campus politician in the same graduating class, but not a close friend of Craig...
...Force: The R.A.F., for the first time, will get the lion's share of British defense spending. Its "primary task'': to build up a striking force of atom-bomber squadrons as the "main contribution to the deterrent." The air defense of Britain will rest on delta- and swept-wing jets like the Javelin and the Hunter. But in a supplementary report which unconvincingly boasted that "this country has an effective air defense," the Defense Ministry as good as admitted that most of the R.A.F.'s fighters are too slow to catch Soviet twin-jet bombers...
Prior Art. In Delta, Colo., a month after he sawed a hole in his cell door and escaped from the county jail, Harley Carringer, 24, was recaptured and put in the same cell, used the 50-lb. ball chained to his leg to knock off the new steel plate welded to the door, used the plate to break his heavy chains, escaped again by the same route...