Word: forayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prose came from Nixon's hardest-hitting speechwriter, Pat Buchanan. He will soon have plenty of opportunity to keep punching. On Sept. 10, when the political season gets going in earnest, Buchanan will be in the Agnew entourage as the Vice President begins his first extended campaign foray. Also going along, in addition to Agnew's own men, will be Bryce Harlow, a Nixon Counsellor with Cabinet rank who will serve as top contact with the White House; Speechwriter William Safire; and Martin Anderson, special consultant to the President on domestic issues, who will handle research...
...Communist diplomat, speaking privately in Paris recently, declared: "First the Americans invaded the Plain of Jars in Laos, then they invaded Cambodia. Such recklessness invites reprisals." Reckless or not, the U.S. foray is not the only reason that the Communists are on the move in Cambodia. The overthrow of Sihanouk was bound to provoke some countermeasures from the Communists, and Lon Nol's government might not have lasted even this long if the U.S. had stayed out of the sanctuaries. But one consequence...
...sure, maintained last week that the five-week-old allied drive into the Communist sanctuaries has been "the most successful operation of this long and difficult war." On the home front, he partly succeeded in reassuring his audience and lowering the decibels of protest against the Cambodian foray. Nevertheless, throughout Cambodia the fighting was intensifying and the list of fighters was still growing...
Worse shocks were to follow. After they became engaged, Scott went to New York to launch his writing career. Zelda stayed home and continued to accept prom invitations from all over the South. On one foray to Georgia Tech she was met at the train by four students, each of whom she had told was to be her escort. During the same weekend she got "pinned" to a young golfer. Back in Montgomery, she thought better of it and sent the pin back with a nice note, which she absentmindedly addressed and mailed to Scott. There is plenty of reason...
...spirit. As commander of ARVN's Operation Total Victory, which has involved some of the deepest South Vietnamese air and armor thrusts into the Parrot's Beak and beyond, Tri has waded farther than ever into the shooting. A newsman who joined him on one recent foray was astonished when Tri ordered his helicopter to land virtually in the midst of a skirmish, then ignored vicious Communist rocket and machine-gun fire to walk to a tank and order the reluctant driver to attack. "Go fast, man!" Tri shouted. "Go fast...