Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision of the U.S. to main tain a presence in this region has been of crucial importance. Every political leader within the area now recognizes that without that presence, the political fate of the region as a whole would have been drastically different. The U.S. has bought time for some 200 million people to develop, without their ceaselessly being confronted with combined external-internal Communist threats...
Eight spans of the Paul Doumer bridge leading into Hanoi were dropped into the Red River, putting the bridge out of use for the third time. Upriver, two spans of the Canal des Rapides bridge were sent sagging into the water, and two of Haiphong's main bridges were put out of use again. Bombs ripped up the oft-repaired runways of the Kep, Phuc Yen and Hoa Lac MIG bases...
...Beatles had to pay $50 apiece to get in-as John Lennon and George Harrison did to give a leg-up to the annual Paris gala for UNICEF. And even the Beatles had competition from such lens lizards as Marlon Bran do, Fernandel, Victor Borge and Ravi Shankar. The main attraction for the photographers was still Liz and Richard Burton, costumed respectively as a molting ostrich and a grandfatherly hippie. So magnetic were the Burtons that the wife of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou surrendered her seat next to them for a few minutes so that Actress Jeanne Moreau could bask...
...main complaint against prior censorship is that it is an unjustified restraint on intellectual freedom and encourages timidity in theological speculation. The imprimatur itself has been put to uses that verge on the absurd...
Despite recessions in several countries, Lego's holiday sales on the Continent were running up to 20% ahead of last year's pace. What makes that perform ance all the more impressive is the fact that Lego thrives in the fad-ridden toy industry with just one main product line: construction kits consisting of interlocking, precision-molded plastic blocks that can be fashioned into almost any shape or mosaiclike pattern...