Word: knolls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chandeliers, swooped in on their targets with bombs and bright orange seas of napalm. From the far distance, across the DMZ in the panhandle of North Viet Nam, came the winks and streaks of antiaircraft fire aimed at American jets blasting the enemy's supply dumps. On a knoll less than two miles from the zone, the Communists have remilitarized, a Marine officer stood fascinated by the spectacle for a while, then turned to his companion. "It beats the Ed Sullivan show, doesn't it?" he said...
...commission said flatly that the President was shot from above and behind and that Oswald fired from the sixth floor after the limousine had passed, no fewer than 58 of the 90 eyewitnesses questioned about the source of the two shots thought that they came from a grassy knoll on the right side...
Obsessed with Crisis. The complexities of U.S. world involvement were clearly on the President's mind as he called the roll at Arlington on a knoll overlooking the Potomac. "The conflict in Viet Nam," he confessed, "is confusing for many of our people." Yet, strangely enough, the President himself has contributed to that confusion. For weeks now, Administration policymakers on Viet Nam have seemed obsessed, to the exclusion of almost everything else, with the Buddhist crisis. To be sure, the U.S. can hardly ignore the bitter feud between Premier...
According to thousands of Pennsylvanians, spring arrives March 16, exactly six weeks after a groundhog in Chester Valley Knoll sees his own shadow and crawls back into his hole. According to astronomers, who gaze at the vernal equinox and not the infernal snow, spring will burst forth at 8:53 p.m. March 20. But to millions of U.S. gardeners, spring officially begins the minute they stroll through the local flower show and receive their newest seed catalogue-and many of them have...
...marches urged watching Negroes to join the procession. A few did, and the group wound by the state park, passing before the reproachful eyes of Alexander Stephens. The procession passed under a railroad bridge and climbed the courthouse knoll...