Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air. Navy jets took potluck, strafing targets along highways, rail lines and riverbeds from the 17th parallel to a point only 80 miles from Hanoi. Air Force Thunderchiefs made the deepest penetration yet by U.S. warplanes, streaking up to the Red River Delta town of Ninhbinh, 60 miles south of Hanoi, to drop 500,000 propaganda leaflets urging North Viet Nam's people not to let "the Chinese and Vietnamese Communists use your bones and blood to wage a fratricidal war." Later in the week 90 Air Force jets returned with bombs...
...power merely saved the day at Songbe, it turned the tide completely in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu, 100 miles to the southwest. In a sharply executed "search-and-destroy" operation, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes spotted a concentration of some 600 Viet Cong in a dried-out paddyfield, then pinned them down while government troops were heli-lifted in. Surrounded on three sides, lashed by rockets and napalm, the Communists finally broke and ran. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. adviser...
...Misery. The origins of rock 'n' roll go deep?Deep South, U.S.A. There, in the 1930s, in the fields and shanties of the delta country, evolved an earthy, hard-driving style of music called "rhythm and blues"?played by Negroes for Negroes. Cured in misery, it was a lonesome, soul-sad music, full of cries and gospel wails, punctuated by a heavy, regular beat. With the migration to the industrial North after World War II, the beat was intensified with electric guitars, bass and drums, and the great blues merchants, like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker...
...hell night" initiation last April for the Omega Gamma Delta fraternity of Oceanside High School on Long Island. Not surprisingly, the bomb had a predictable effect on Ninth-Grader Michael Kalogris, then 14. He collapsed with what doctors at first feared was a ruptured spleen...
...first operation, in the Mekong Delta, Major Rogers rolled out of hammock at 3:30 a.m., marched all day under a brain-beating sun, through paddyfields and up to his armpits in irrigation ditches, ready to give instant advice. The Vietnamese commander barely spoke to him. That night, after washing out his muddy clothes in a canal, Rogers sat patiently waiting to be consulted - but neither offering advice nor being invited to give...