Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return cargo of bullet-riddled, scrapped "banana" transport choppers. Because of the Card's deep draft, her superstructure remained above water, and within hours she was being raised for repairs. While the incident was hardly grave, it gave further evidence of growing Viet Cong boldness and the frequent inefficiency of South Vietnamese security measures. Only weeks earlier, American advisers had requested that the dock be better guarded, but received no response. On the evening after the Card explosion, eight U.S. servicemen in Saigon were wounded when a terrorist on a bicycle threw a bomb...
...Cliveden was in the news for very different reasons. A born hostess, Nancy loved to bring together weekend guests of all nationalities, religions and political convictions. Nonetheless, because the Astors' most frequent visitors included top Tories and the editors of the two Astor newspapers, the London Times and the Observer, the Cliveden set became a sinister synonym for the forces in Britain that believed in making a deal with Hitler. Though actually Prime Minister Chamberlain fervently believed in appeasement with no persuasion from his hostess, Nancy Aster's failure to accept the final futility of his policy caused...
...this was only a modest claim to independence, it helped Pompidou's emerging political image. So does his knack for working out compromises between industry and the workers, who are besieging the inflation-ridden De Gaulle regime with demands for wage increases. In his increasingly frequent TV appearances, he is somewhat pedestrian, but also shows a certain folksy appeal. Watching him on the screen, De Gaulle himself once said appreciatively: "Good. Louis XVIII in modern dress." He was referring to the first Bourbon king restored to the throne after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a man who combined...
...fact sheet cites the rapid decline of Russian synagogues from nearly 500 five years ago to 90 today, the curtailment since 1958 of Yiddish books and newspapers, and the frequent charges of economic crimes against Jews, as evidence of fast-growing Soviet anti-Semitic policy...
...other hand, he seems to approve of the "radical Negro Revolution" which "insists on the transfer of political and economic power" and believes in frequent, massive public demonstrations. This group--organized in the Freedom Now Party and the Black Muslims--are "race men." That is, they place a great emphasis on "negritude," or "the cultural and political expression of the personality of the Negro people." In general, Epps is setting the energy and boldness of the revolutionaries against the relatively conservative nature of the traditional groups...