Word: greens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nonetheless, the Communists attacked, launching 26 battalions toward the city, more than twice as many as employed during Tet. With the allies waiting, it was a lemming-like march to almost certain destruction. Not a major unit got inside Saigon proper. Many of the attackers were so youthful and green and recently infiltrated that they got lost en route. Some 5,000 were killed, and another defector, North Vietnamese Regimental Commander Lieut. Colonel Truong Trung Doan, surrendered because he had been ordered to make suicidal attacks. Militarily, Tet II was disastrously expensive for the enemy. But it did inflict severe...
...election signaled a new stability and optimism in the Dominican Republic. Though still troubled by many of the problems of the underdeveloped, the country has experienced a relaxation of the old political tensions that triggered the 1965 revolution. From the rich rice fields in the north and the green, leafy mountain towns of the west to downtown Santo Domingo, Balaguer has launched an ambitious renovation of the Dominican Republic and its morale, helped along by $45 million in U.S. aid. New warehouses are sprouting up along the capital's Ozama River, replacing those burned down in the bitter fighting...
...entire group of people. Still, within bounds, such attempts at mass analysis can be useful. Last week two psychiatrists addressing the 124th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Boston assessed the psychological forces at work within two of the nation's most militant if dissimilar groups-Green Beret volunteers and members of the Black Power movement. A third presented his views on the attitudes of white city fathers who must cope with militant blacks. - Dr. Peter G. Bourne, a staff psychiatrist at Stanford University Medical Center, spent three months observing a twelve-man Special Forces "A" team...
dark, All the sweet, green icing flowing
...took his Ph.D. degree at Harvard with Carroll Williams, professor of Biology. When asked about Kafatos, Williams said "Fotis is in a group by himself. I've never seen anyone with such a green thumb for identifying the critical phenomenon and devising the necessary experiment." Williams relates how one of his colleagues, after watching Kafatos present his findings, said "God may be dead but Zeus isn't." Williams used to be one of the heads of the developmental biology course Kafatos now teaches with John G. Torrey, professor of Botany. But "Kafatos is such an enchanting and lovable teacher that...