Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that only their courage denied the enemy complete success. Sergeant Ronald W. Harper, 20, a Marine guard, managed to heave shut the embassy's massive teakwood front doors just seconds before the guerrillas battered at them with rockets and machine guns, thus denying the V.C. entry to the main building...
Unable to penetrate the main chancery, the V.C. commandos ran aimlessly through the compound, firing on everything they saw. Meanwhile, small groups of Marines and MPs began arriving outside the walls of the embattled embassy. The Viet Cong burst into the embassy's consular building and various other buildings in the compound, but the Americans on the scene threw such heavy fire at them that the guerrillas were kept too busy to set off their explosives...
...flake. During an exhibition ski jump in Switzerland, Jean-Claude shocked spectators by dropping his trousers in midair. He once left a Volkswagen parked in the middle of an Italian hotel lobby, and three years ago, just for laughs, he and some buddies fired off revolvers on the main street of Vail, Colo...
...merging, both National Provincial and Westminster expect to reduce the heavy but inevitable cost of converting to fully computerized accounting. The two banks should make a good fit. Westminster, headed by Chairman Duncan Stirling and Chief General Manager Ralph Elliott, has concentrated on personal and professional accounts, has its main strength in London and southern England. National Provincial, led by Chairman David Robarts and Chief General Manager William Davidson, has stressed industrial accounts and expansion in the Midlands and northern England. And British banking's belated reach for efficiency seems likely to bring more mergers soon. Lloyd...
...could mistake the murderers, young Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, for Bonnie and Clyde; as rendered by Author Williams, they are closer to Jekyll and Hyde, complete with Victorian-melodrama makeup. Ian, 25, is the main figure, but wind him as he will, Williams cannot bring his manic mannequin to life...