Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Airborne did. In five days of bloody battle, U.S. fighter-bombers flew hundreds of sorties on the North Vietnamese L-shaped bunkers and tunnels dug into a hill covered with bamboo thicket. B-52 bombers hit the Red supply areas ten miles behind their redoubt, and the Airborne's artillery and mortars laid a curtain of steel down the hillside. Some U.S. units were hit hard by Giap's "human wave" mass attack: Company Commander William Carpenter (see THE NATION) heroically called down napalm strikes on his own position when Communist troops overran it. But at week...
When the French returned, Ho ordered Giap as Commander in Chief of the North Viet Nam army to meet General Jacques LeClerc at the airport. Giap flew into a towering rage, ranting that he would never shake hands with any Frenchman. Uncle Ho listened for a while and then said: "You have two hours before his plane arrives, so why don't you go into the corner and cry your eyes out. But be at the airport." Giap went. But such emotional outbursts led Ho to leave Giap at home when he went off to Fontainebleau to negotiate with...
...Adhemar, now 65, flew off to European exile with his black-haired mistress in tow, many Brazilians felt a twinge of regret at seeing the magnificent old reprobate go. After all, in an era when corrupt politicians were almost admired, Adhemar had been the greatest rogue of them...
...gossip that the preacher would be marrying Corrine Annette Huff, 25, a onetime Miss Ohio who was the first Negro to compete in the Miss U.S.A. contest. "Absolutely untrue," fumed Adam when the story caught up with him on a European junket. Having thus squelched the item, he flew off to attend a labor conference in Geneva. Right beside him was the apple he calls "Huffie," who labors away as an assistant to Adam's House Education and Labor Committee, at $18,600 per annum...
Four members of the Harvard Faculty flew to New Delhi last weekend to participate in a conference of American and Indian scholars discussing problems of "Arms Control, Disarmament, and Economic Growth...