Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops are fighting in the South, but still refused to come right out and say so. Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman in turn handed Thuy a report charging that Hanoi had decided as early as May 1959 to launch a military offensive against the Saigon regime. Since 1964, the document added, Hanoi has sent more than 200,000 men into the South, now has at least 85,000 there. Until the North Vietnamese ad mit their presence, said Harriman, "meaningful and frank discussions" are impossible...
...life, De Gaulle was unsure about his course of action. As he departed from the palace, he handed an aide, Bernard Tricot, two keys to a safe. In a gesture reminiscent of Cardinal Richelieu's leaving a posthumous message to the French people, De Gaulle had deposited a document, presumably his resignation, that on his telephoned signal was to be opened and read to the nation...
...current exhibit demonstrates, Braidwood's own quest has been to document that momentous episode in history when man changed from nomadic hunter to settled farmer. According to an old archaeological axiom, the transition took place thousands of years ago in the Fertile Crescent, the lush Middle Eastern flatlands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Largely as a result of Braidwood's spadework, the Fertile Crescent theory has been buried. Most of his colleagues now agree with him that man actually abandoned his vagrant ways as early as 7000 B.C. and set up his first farm villages...
...dozens of other allied installations, they staged the long-expected reprise of their countrywide Tet offensive. Round 2 did not come near the original. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong did not overrun a single allied town or installation, launched ground attacks only in Saigon. One captured Viet Cong document outlined their limited goals: "Our immediate requirement is to carry out harassment fire, and the current requirement is to create pressure over peace talks between our representatives and American representatives in Paris...
...Thomas Wolfe ("Brood on that country who expresses our will. She is America, once a beauty of magnificence unparalleled . . . tender mysterious bitch"). For the most part, his genuine wit and bellicose charm, and his fervent and intense sense of legitimately caring, render The Armies of the Night an artful document, worthy to be judged as literature...