Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provincial town only 15 miles south of Phnom-Penh on the west bank of the Bassac River. For five days, a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese force of undetermined size-perhaps only 100 men-held the town against a force of 4,000 Cambodian troops, who arrived in a fleet of commandeered buses and trucks. Only after the Cambodians had plastered Saang with artillery, mortar fire and air attacks for four days did they dare enter the half-destroyed town. It was empty...
Purdy's opponent, Dean Hibner, could barely keep up with the fleet Purdy. and was seen breathing heavily on several occasions...
Shortly after the tense November Mobilization, in which 500,000 persons gathered to demonstrate to a fleet of D.C. Transit buses surrounding the While House their opposition to the Vietnam War, newspapers and newsmagazines began to tell students that the newest issue to occupy their attention was ecology...
...printing an interview calling for a return to democracy. The fines were such that the paper, whose circulation in Athens had risen from 17,000 to 45,000, was forced to close down. Police harassment had prevented its circulation in the countryside. During the trials, the Sixth Fleet pulled into Piracus, sanctioning with its presence the mockery of justice which was taking place in Athens...
...estimates, the Communists get fully 80% of their supplies for the war in the lower half of South Viet Nam. Much of the matériel is brought in aboard Chinese and Soviet freighters and moved north over first-class roads (including one built with U.S. aid) by a fleet of some 500 canvas-covered lorries operated by the Chinese firm...