Word: dungeness
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...second thing you notice is the apparent absence of racial tension. Students pull at the arm of Chuck Williams, a blond, frizzy-haired English teacher. "Mr. Williams, Mr. Williams, what is brown and sounds like a bell?" Williams rolls his eyes and lets his head vibrate. "Dung...
...recent times, the price of government subsidization included requirements that more than 50% of the repertory be French and that French singers be given priority. So mediocre did the Paris Opera become that former Enfant Terrible Pierre Boulez was led to say that it was "full of dust and dung...
...Hanoi recognized the reduction of U.S. aid to the Saigon government as a key factor in the war's outcome. Says Dung: "Nguyen Van Thieu was forced to fight a poor man's war." He adds that Saigon's "firepower had declined by nearly 60% because of bomb and ammunition shortages. Its mobility was reduced by half, owing to the lack of aircraft, vehicles and fuel...
...heated discussion" took place in Hanoi regarding the possibility that the U.S. would reintervene in the South. In the end, however, Hanoi determined that the U.S. would probably stay out. One important factor: Watergate. Says Dung: "The Watergate scandal had seriously affected the entire U.S. and precipitated the resignation of an extremely reactionary, imperialist President-Nixon...
...border, or farther north in Pleiku. Hence the Communists' decision to launch the initial thrust against the Central Highlands city of Ban Me Thuot. That came as a complete surprise to Saigon and led President Thieu to his hasty decision to withdraw his forces from the Central Highlands. Dung calls Thieu's decision a "grave strategic mistake." Thereafter, he says, Hanoi's main problem was moving fast enough to maintain the military initiative. For example, the Communists sent a commander from Hanoi to take charge of the battle for Danang on March 26. Much to Hanoi...