Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chill mists of the crachin season crept past the French forts of the Red River delta, elements of two Viet Minh divisions, some 20,000 strong, slipped away to the southwest; they swerved unopposed across Indo-China's wooded mountain spine, then invaded the "associated state" of Laos in its southern, least strongly defended sector (see map). The Communists fell by night upon a French-Laotian company near the border and cut it quickly to pieces. Then the invaders headed west through scraggy hillsides towards the Mekong, using footpath trails to bypass the French defense posts along the main...
...military intentions are not clear. From Thakhek, he could move northwest against Luang Prabang, the Laotian royal capital; he could move south towards Savannakhet and its important nearby airfield. He could dig in at Thakhek and wait for the French to send reinforcements from the decisive delta against him. At Thakhek, too, he could pose a threat to neutral but strongly anti-Communist Siam. The Siamese were taking no chances: they declared nine provinces an emergency zone and moved troops and artillery to the Mekong, directly opposite the Communist positions...
...with Communist actions, Ho's offensive had deeper, political purposes. Theory No. 1: Ho is now trying to win the war in a series of offensives, of which the Mekong drive is the first. Theory No. 2: Ho knows he cannot win the war unless he crushes the delta; since he cannot do this, he is therefore trying to create a position of strength in Laos as a prelude to peace negotiations...
...Chicago's ornate Civic Opera House one day last week, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson arose before 3,000 members of the American Farm Bureau Federation to talk about farm problems and policy. Just before he spoke, the "Deltones," a girls' trio from Delta County, Utah, sang "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town." But Ezra Taft Benson made no effort to pose as a man with a snowy white beard and a bag full of gifts...
...degree began at Harvard in the 1880's. In 1881 the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions. 1844 saw the start of the first College club seriously devoted to productions of English drama: the Harvard chapter of Delta Upsilon which produced Elizabethan comedies through the 1930's. In 1889 the first of a number of Harvard Shakespeare Clubs gave Julius Caesar in Sanders Theater before "a large and representative audience...