Word: hoist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embarrassed men could have climbed the truck's hoist and disap peared with the garbage, but Lindsay had no reproofs. "Come on," he said simply. "Let's clean up the city." In his own way -which involves paying personal attention to New York's trash as well as its panache -Republican John Lindsay has been trying to clean up his city since he took on the mayoralty just a year ago. The results are certainly not all that he hoped, nor all that the city expected. But the effort is quite a sight...
...warmly pro-Ho: President Ho Chi Minh himself appears only in stills, but the movie offers an interview showing Premier Pham Van Dong as a merry little grig who seems about to warble Whistle While You Work. There is also a sequence in which grinning peasants hoist the engine of a fallen U.S. bomber on their shoulder poles and haul it home in triumph like a captured tiger. About a third of the footage is indignantly anti-American: shots of schoolchildren digging trenches ("an outrage and an imposition"), views of a TB clinic allegedly destroyed by U.S. bombs that overshot...
...stopped to inspect a new park a short distance away, the President made his move. Because the steel sutures from his Nov. 16 "cuttin' " were still in his abdo men (they were removed at week's end), it was a painful maneuver, but Johnson managed to hoist himself behind the steering wheel and blithely drove away. After a turn through Johnson City, a quick circle around his boyhood home, and a short spin down an old gravel road, the President hit the main highway and drove the ten miles back to the ranch...
...bring an airman aboard. If the downed man is seriously disabled, the pararescue man goes down and stays with him until they can get out-which can mean as long as a day or more in enemy territory. Most often an airman is lifted out of difficult terrain by hoist. Each rescue copter has a 240-ft. cable tipped by a "forest penetrator": a 25-lb. sinker that can plunge through heavy foliage, then, petal-like, open up to form three seats. Rescue squadrons stand on alert for every sortie northward, and some even nest for a period within North...
...four A-l fighters to bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival and medical care...