Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While rumors of a new Communist drive have bedeviled Saigon frequently since August, allied officers were not inclined to dismiss the current crop out of hand. Heavy action near the Cambodian border, a sharp upsurge of activity in the Demilitarized Zone and the presence of perhaps 1,000 Viet Cong sappers (demolition experts) and other agents in Saigon all pointed to trouble...
...guerrillas' disadvantage, the bleak, rocky West Bank, where they target most of their operations, does not provide good cover, and the Israelis are a formidably efficient enemy. They claim to have killed or captured 2,650 fedayeen and tend to dismiss them as amateurs. "We cannot dignify them with the name guerrilla or commando," says an Israeli officer. "The Arabs who cross over show no daring. In that respect, they are nowhere near Viet Cong standards." The Israelis do respect Arafat, however. Their intelligence network has twice reported him on Israeli soil, and twice he escaped a dragnet. "Anyone...
Idea Man. At the end of the first season, last June, the Editorial Policy Board urged the foundation to dismiss Westin and wondered if maybe the whole project should be dropped. Instead, it was the policy board, not the lab, that the foundation eliminated. Westin was retained, though with a coequal executive editor, Frederick Bohen, a 31-year-old ex-member of the White House staff...
Hardin went on to dismiss his own performance as "a bad day," and accounted for McLoone and Shaw in similar terms. "And when three of your top scorers have bad days, your team is in trouble...
American literature has long been the scene of wordy battles between scholars and critics. The scholars are basically interested in establishing accurate texts, the critics in plumbing nuances of characterization, plot and symbol. The critics sometimes decry the scholars as pedants with bibliomania, while the scholars dismiss the critics as dilettantes with an unprofessional lack of interest in discovering what an author really wrote. In a pair of scathing articles for the New York Review of Books, Critic Edmund Wilson recently added his eminent voice to the quarrel. He suggested that a number of leading literary experts are now engaged...