Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...except for the continuing murderous antiaircraft fire, which continued to claim U.S. helicopters, A Shau proved to be lightly defended on the ground. The men of North Viet Nam's 559th Supply and Transportation Regiment did not put up much of a fight, retreating into the hills. Steady allied advance over the valley floor became a treasure hunt for the enormous caches of hardware that the Communists had to leave behind when they fled. It included Soviet tanks, trucks and bulldozers, vast quantities of rockets, mortars, artillery, small arms, flamethrowers, gas masks-and enough electronic equipment and tapes...
...grave at Ap Dong Gi, more than 100 victims were found, all buried alive, all standing, with only the hands and arms of some extending vainly above the ground. ¶ As he clung to safety inside a pagoda, a Buddhist monk heard screams and pleas for mercy as shots rang out nightly during the first two weeks of February. Later, the bodies of 67 victims, including Nguyen Ngoc Ky, leader of the Viet Nam Nationalist Party, were found in 13 nearby graves...
...undoubtedly gained a temporary psychological victory, he suffered a grievous military loss that has served to further enhance our military progress. From the standpoint of pacification, progress was inhibited by the Tet offensive. But the aggressive action of the government has definitely reversed the trend and much of the ground lost has been regained...
...Brunswick, for example, the application of only one-half pound of DDT per acre of forest to control the spruce budworm has twice wiped out almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi River. In this process, rain washes the DDT off the ground and into the plankton of lakes and streams. Fish eat the DDT-tainted plankton; the pesticide becomes concentrated in their bodies, and the original dose ultimately reaches multifold strength in fish-eating birds, which then often die or stop reproducing. DDT is almost certainly to blame for the alarming decrease...
...flagstaff and tromps the red-crossed flag of England underfoot. It is the most powerful moment of the evening and brings to vivid life D. H. Lawrence's comment that Amer ica was born in "black revulsion." Black with wrath, Endecott orders Merry Mount burned to the ground and the Indians massacred. The historical moment is a century and a half before the American Revolution, but as the first shots are fired, and puffs of acrid smoke drift across the stage, the playgoer sniffs the unmistakable odor of revolt...