Word: linke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combined American-Vietnamese sweep called Coronado II, four battalions from the 9th and 25th Divisions were helilifted into the area; two others swarmed ashore from river as sault boats. The Americans' job was to link up with ten South Vietnamese battalions to make a 250-sq.-mi. rectangle surrounding the V.C. battalions. While the perimeter formed, two battalions of tough South Vietnamese Marines came clattering in by copter to flush out the quarry. By chance, the Marines landed squarely in the midst of a crack V.C. outfit. At once they were in a furious firefight and the Marine commander...
...fellow college students. The ghetto explosions differ because they have the continuing impetus of legitimate grievances inflamed by a popular movement and a war cry, but they share the same "ungrateful" indifference and taunting arrogance. I do not defend rage or lawlessness, but I think such a link helps explain the bewilderment of older Negroes at their children's sabotage of the larger cause of civil rights...
There are also plans for a possible underground link with the proposed Cambridge Common Garage--a huge parking structure which would be located beneath the Common. Another possibility is an underground walkway--perhaps equipped with a moving sidewalk--to connect the MBTA station with the Kennedy Library...
University Police Chief Robert Tonis urges all Summer School students to protect themselves against theft and fines. The number of bicycle thefts has increased recently, and the University police recommend metal link chains--rather than those flimsy plastic-coated cables--to foil would-be bicycle-nappers...
...class international competition in Nova Scotia. He is still an enthusiastic boat man who, notes a friend, "minimizes his tacks by coming closer to the white water than other sailors will" and is co-owner of a 30-ft. ketch, Auriga, with Williams President John Sawyer. Brewster sees a link between sailing and running a university, contends wryly that "there is always the infinite capacity for anticipation at the start and rationalization at the finish...