Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winkle Them Out." The American reinforcements will have the benefit of some U.S. preparations. Twelve U.S. Special Forces camps have already been set up in the Delta. The U.S. Navy patrols its 2,500-mi. labyrinth of rivers and canals with 71 PT-type boats and three hovercraft. Along the coast, patrol boats of the Navy's Operation Market Time have cut down on Communist gunrunning. As elsewhere, it will be difficult to separate friend from foe-demonstrated last week when U.S. Air Force jets strafed and bombed a Delta hamlet near the village of Truong Trung...
...foliage is the cover for a V.C. truck-or the product of a jungle spring. A one-eighth-inch telephone wire strung across a jungle clearing can betray the location of an enemy field-communications system; a jungle trail that suddenly peters out can pinpoint the entrance to a labyrinth of V.C. tunnels; a road that goes nowhere can lead the photo interpreters to a hidden oil dump. It requires infinite patience. "A road ends at a river where the ferryboat has been sunk by bombing," says Captain John Irwin, a Recce Tech officer. "Where is the new ferryboat...
...proved a mighty mandate. The U.S. welfare system is an all but impenetrable labyrinth of overlapping, interlocking, and often competing programs. Some 200 federal projects administered by 21 federal agencies are involved in the poverty war. In the area of manpower and development alone, seven federal departments have their own programs. When it wrote the poverty bill, Congress had a chance to streamline the machinery and thereby spare Shriver some of the interdepartmental bickering that has plagued him. But Congress muffed the opportunity-in part because of Lyndon Johnson's whipcracking impatience to get on with the Great Society...
...invaluable harbinger whose projections vitally affect the entire U.S., the budget tells businessmen how much the Government may be expected to buy from them, taxpayers how much it will take from them to do the buying with. Within its labyrinth are enough booby traps to bedevil an army of certified public accountants, enough opportunities for sleight of hand to exhaust a prestidigitator. The budget gives the impression of disclosing what everything costs, right down to the last G51 clerk ($3,507), but it carefully conceals such strategic particulars as the spending of the Central Intelligence Agency (estimated to be about...
...Labyrinth. The first book requires a child to look at a drawing, then answer such questions as "Am I an ant?" or to circle the right word in distinguishing between mat and man. New letters are introduced, and by Book 7 he can handle such words as sandwich, haystack and yesterday. Each step requires the child to either make a yes-no choice, select the words to complete a sentence, or fill in a blank in a sentence. By Book 21 he has been introduced to all the toughest exceptions to the phonetic rules of English. His reading vocabulary totals...