Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese women, a tradition that goes back to the two Trung sisters' fight to repel Chinese invaders in A.D. 39. Running short of male conscripts, the Communists have lately recruited all-female combat units. Women now make up an estimated one-third to one-half of V.C. main-force troops...
...during the flight." As for Richter, he requires at least five days' rest after a flight to calm down and restore his sense of hearing. Nor are musicians the only ones affected. Former Boston Red Sox Star Jackie Jensen says: "I quit baseball for several reasons, but the main one was fear of flying. It just wasn't worth it." And Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury has refused to fly at all, even when John H. Glenn Jr. offered him a lift in his private...
...Cellar. Michael Spock recalls that his father was reasonably strict ("I knew exactly what the limits were and how he felt about things") and ingenious about rigging a staircase for children to climb up on the examining table by themselves ("The kids loved it"). But Michael feels that the main thrust for his career came from his own youthful enthusiasm for art and science museums. When he became director of his museum six years ago, he staged the kind of exhibit that would have' fascinated him as a boy. Called "What's Inside," it featured a cross section...
...wrote a great many of these-indeed it seems remarkable that they had any time left over to get out the magazines. In these memos they struggled with each other, tried to convince each other, often about procedural matters (Who is responsible for accuracy?) but, more often, about the main political and intellectual currents of the times...
...fondest memories of Fourth of July celebrations when the Americans clasped hands in the "hush of eventide" and sang My Country, 'Tis of Thee. He never could forget "a shameful, futile, endless two hours one Saturday afternoon when I rolled around the unspeakably dirty floor of the main schoolroom with a little British bastard who had insulted my country." Such experiences, he later felt, gave him a "too romantic, too idealistic view of America ... I had no experience of evil in terms of Americans." Briton Hadden: born in Brooklyn to a prosperous banking family, wanted to become a professional...