Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem became acute late in 1965, when troops were out on combat operations for days on end with no chance to change their socks or dry their feet. Their feet became white, wrinkled, and so painful that at best it was difficult to walk. For some, it was impossible. These men had to be evacuated. Warm-water foot was causing more casualties than the Viet Cong...
...name of the operation is called variously the "May Run," the "Grim Grind" or the "Big Day." Its object is to identify, by sight and song, as many species of birds as possible in a 24-hour period. The time is now, when, because of the late spring, the north ward migration is still going strong...
...Airline Lift. Some of the come-on reminded Madison Avenue veterans of Adman David Ogilvy's effort to escape anonymity in the late 1940s. Ogilvy sent out salvos of press releases until, as he confessed, competitors complained that "nobody went to the bathroom at our agency without the news appearing in the trade press." Wells herself admits to "a staggering lack of modesty," but her agency has avoided outright flackery-if only because its partners were never quite obscure in the first place...
...Auden and Allen Tate were both, in Auden's word, "colonizers" of the terrain that Pound and Eliot discovered. Theodore Roethke was already a major poet when he died in 1963 at 55. The late Dylan Thomas, with his crosscountry sweep of public performances, helped carry poetry into the floodlit arena. So did the beats. Of them, only Allen Ginsberg retains any influence, perhaps less for his poems than for his relentlessly acted role as the bewhiskered prophet of four-letter words, homosexuality, pot, and general din. Still, in their better moments, the beats, now fitfully imitated...
...protection was deceptive. Not only was the veto no longer absolute, but the DPW had begun to move forward on a route for the highway. In late fall of 1963, it won tentative approval of a route through Boston from Mayor John F. Collins, and the next January it received a similar nod for the location of the small but important segment of the highway in Somerville. Cambridge had done nothing to join in opposition with either of these cities, and now the opportunity to do so was gone forever...