Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wherever they looked last week, the leaders of North Viet Nam saw trouble. To the north, Red China was convulsed by violence. Below the 17th parallel, the U.S. and its allies were preparing a knockout blow against the Communist "main force" units, which were already reeling from 1966 losses of 50,000 men in combat and 20,000 defectors...
...basement of the Dallas Police and Courts Building on the morning of Nov. 24, 1963, Ruby recalled: "The ironic part of this is I had made an illegal turn behind a bus to the parking lot. Had I gone the way I was supposed to go-straight down Main Street-I would've never met this fate, because the difference in meeting this fate was 30 seconds one way or the other...
...Truth. Despite the new violence and threats of more violence, however, the main war is still being fought with words-thousands upon thousands of them. Most of them deal in sharp vilification of the villains opposing Mao's revolution, or make an effort to arouse indignation and sympathy for Mao and thus broaden the base of mass support that he and Lin Piao must command to make their purge of China successful. The attacks are based on the deeply orthodox belief that the teachings of Mao contain all truth-and that to question or oppose them...
...main thing about a Parisian mini-Shetland is not its downy wool or its colors, which range from black to brilliant to pastel, but its size. No blooming French lassy, no matter what her measurements, will wear anything larger than a size designed for a 12-year-old child. The effect is that old-fashioned look of the sweatered pinup girl, with une petite différence, s'il vous plaît. To fit properly, the long-sleeved mini-Shetlands should not quite reach to the wrists. This summer, the waist was high enough to leave a patch...
...Nerve Center. The advantage of television, contends Scarborough Dean W. E. Beckel, is that "we can make a small number of really first-class professors available to the widest group of students." Scarborough's nerve center is a main television-production studio (60 ft. by 50 ft.) and five adjacent smaller studios. The network can handle eleven instructional programs at a time, covering 50 classrooms. Except for educational films, Scarborough produces all of its own TV instructional material, 60% of it on Videotape...