Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better than middling. After all, it has neither won nor approached victory in eleven years of existence. Many units break and run in battle, as did the 39th Ranger Battalion earlier this year. The 39th became known as "the roadrunners." But during the Quangngai fight "the roadrunners" stood their ground on a conical hill called Nuitran. There 108 of them were wiped out, erasing in the process the slur on their battalion's name...
...modern abyss, you must develop your private brinksmanship, your strategies, your ruses, your delightful and desperate games of inner survival, whether they take the form of Batman comics or whistling Handel's Water Music, enabling you to live perpetually at the edge but very much on your own ground." It was Yale's President Kingman Brewster who perhaps best expressed the mood of the commencement speakers. After warning against "the self-pity now popularly dubbed alienation," he praised the students' concern for social justice, but reminded them that "the ugliness of the radical" is no different from...
...concentrate on sugar simply because they failed at everything else. When Castro first took over in 1959, he scorned the country's traditionally sugar-based economy as a mere device for capitalist exploitation, and embarked on a drive for immediate industrialization. The grandiose plans never got off the ground, chiefly because of mismanagement and lack of funds. In the meantime, Cuba's sugar crops dwindled to nearly half the old yield, and Castro fell deeper into debt to his Iron Curtain partners...
...that got him a nine-year rap at hard labor. This occurred in 1958-one year after Miss Mapp's offense. But Linkletter's greatest misfortune was that his conviction became final 15 months before the Supreme Court's Mapp decision. Nonetheless, he appealed on the ground that Mapp should void his conviction...
...computer-operated landing system aboard the Trident is called the Autoflare, developed by Smith's Aircraft Instruments and Hawker Siddeley Aviation. Autoflare takes over within 150 ft. of the ground (see diagram). The plane is brought down the glide path toward the runway on radio beams from standard instrument landing equipment on the ground. From 150 ft. to 65 ft., twin computers aboard take control, directing the descent with information they have memorized and stored during the preceding 15 sec. At 65 ft., radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane...