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Word: dumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outgunned in open combat, the Viet Cong reverted to type, mortaring a number of isolated outposts and headquarters. For the second time in three weeks, guerrillas hit the Long Binh ammunition dump 13 miles north of Saigon. Under cover of mortar fire, Viet Cong penetrated the depot's perimeter, detonated a satchel charge against one ammunition pad, setting it afire. What makes Long Binh easy to attack-and difficult to damage seriously-is that each revetted pad is separated widely from all the others to prevent a chain reaction of explosions if one goes up. Red terrorists also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Disappearing Act | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Still, when it counted, Marino's forces stopped the Blue. On a key fourth-down play in the third quarter at the Crimson 20, the powerful sophomore stormed in to dump Lawler for a seven-yard loss...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Yale Whips Punchless JV, 12-0 | 11/19/1966 | See Source »

...Commercial Bank; Chairman Albert Nikolaevich Belishchenko, 36, a career banker who was formerly vice-director of Moscow's Gosbank, says the name refers to the spaceships that the Russians launched in 1964 and 1965. Belishchenko takes pains to allay Swiss fears that Moscow will use the bank to dump gold and otherwise disrupt the tiny nation's financial ties to other Western countries. "The Soviet government wants to trade with all countries willing to trade with it," says he. "We are here to help finance this trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.S.R.: How to Succeed As a Socialist Banker | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...didn't know how many civilian casualties U.S. troops had caused. Many students who heard McNamara Monday could only describe him in superlatives -- "one of the most callous, arrogant men I have ever seen," said one. So intense was two students disgust that they were prepared at first to dump bloody bones at the Secretary's feet as a gesture of protest...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Mill Street: Chronicle of a Confrontation | 11/15/1966 | See Source »

...with Keith so vulnerable did the Democrats refuse to endorse Rolvaag in June? The roots of their decision to dump the Governor go back to the early '60's -- the golden days of Minnesota politics...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: How to Get Mangled in Minnesota Politics: Sandy Keith Succumbs to Sympathy Vote | 11/1/1966 | See Source »

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