Word: hu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles out, the cyclists were slowed briefly by government troops retrieving the bodies of a dozen Viet Cong who had been killed trying to cross the road an hour before. The pack quickly resumed its pace, wheeling over the misty Ai Van Pass to Hué thence to the Ben Hai bridge at the edge of the DMZ. There the racers turned around, headed back to Hué, then on to Danang. Only 16 of the starters finished, but miraculously none of the dropouts were kidnaped, and there was not a single Viet Cong ambush...
...structure and notation. The result is that thousands of students learn to read com plex scores as easily as a column of figures by the time they reach the eighth grade. Best of all, says Kodály, the children become skillful performers on "a beautiful musical instrument"-the hu man voice. He believes that singing not only provides "the best foundation of musicality" but also conditions the body and stimulates the brain...
...demilitarized zone. It was the first full division ever reported to have come down, it numbered 8,000-10,000 men, and its apparent mission was to deliver a sudden and overwhelming attack upon the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, including the old imperial city of Hu...
Hostile Land & Unforgiving Sea. Pilot Jesse J. Anderson, 39, had been orbiting his HU-16 amphibious Albatross over the Gulf for nearly seven hours when he picked up the Phantom's cry for help. Gunning his motors, Anderson sped toward the crippled plane. Before he arrived, the crew bailed out: one pilot dropped into the waters of the Gulf barely half a mile from the North Viet Nam coast, the other a mile farther out. Both were soon under heavy shore fire from machine guns and mortars as they bobbed helplessly in the water. Six U.S. fighter planes zoomed...
...question that remained was whether Ky would decide to attack Hué as he had Danang. The U.S. hoped he would not and arranged at week's end a meeting between Ky and General Nguyen Chanh Thi, whose ouster as I Corps commander last March started South Viet Nam's latest political crisis. Though Buddhist marches and riots raged through Saigon all last week, Tri Quang so far had failed to arouse any widespread popular resentment against Ky and his government. The muscle of rebellion has been provided by I Corps Vietnamese soldiers who have remained loyal...