Word: iv
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese have done well against main-force units, American air support has been crucial. When they have floundered, the problem has been that perennial ARVN soft spot, poor leadership. U.S. military men give high marks to a number of top officers, among them General Ngo Quang Truong, commander of IV Corps, and Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, whose 21st Division cleared the treacherous U Minh forest in the Mekong Delta in a tough but little-noted operation last year. Even so, most U.S. advisers below the rank of major speak of their Vietnamese counterparts with condescension if not outright contempt...
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...Zeppelin had its ups and down. First they released III that was without a doubt their worst work. Their U.S. tour was something less than successful and a long-promised fourth album was not released until the end of the year. Led Zeppelin IV, however, turned out to be one of the best albums of the year...
...root cause was England's historical lust to subjugate the Emerald Isle. Ironically, that ambition was sanctioned in 1155, when Pope Adrian IV gave sovereignty over Ireland to England's King Henry II. During the next centuries, the English made sporadic and mostly unsuccessful efforts to conquer the island. Hegemony was finally established during the Reformation, when Queen Elizabeth's army beat the last of Ulster's great Celtic earls, Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell, at the battle of Kinsale in 1601. The vast lands of these Catholic noblemen were forfeited to English and Scottish "undertakers...
...anybody knows what they mean; 'zounds if they aren't fun anyway. So is her version of Richard. She sees him as a 15th century Bobby Kennedy, the runt of a glittering litter who as a youth is devoted to his glamorous older brother, King Edward IV, and as Edward's successor displays rare qualities of social conscience...