Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure the worth of what you're doing? Tonight we jounced over a horrible rutted road to a village about ten kilometers away, to show films. The villagers had been alerted ahead of time, and as we drove in a great cheer went up from the kids lining the "main street." I grinned from ear to ear in the darkness as the kids cheered, that sound seemed to make the whole two years worth while. Fifteen minutes later, of course, I wanted to grab the same kids by the throat and throttle them one by one because they made...
First hit was a montagnard patrol-it was decimated by a scythe of small-arms fire. Then a 20-man outpost in a clearing below the fort was overrun-the defenders died in their bunkers. At the main fort, U.S. Special Forces Captain Harold M. Moore radioed for help. Soon flare ships were splashing naked light over enemy positions as the Reds' recoilless rifles slammed round after round through the camp's longhouses. The 2,300-odd montagnard women and children living at Plei Me disappeared underground for a week-long hibernation. All, that is, but the older...
...most menfolk thereabouts have other things on their minds. His wan, dark-haired wife says hopefully: "Floyd never could read. I notice now he can write his name real good. They act like it hurts them to go to school, but it don't." Nonetheless, the Handshoes' main aim in life is not to qualify for factory jobs but simply to go on living as they and their ancestors have for centuries...
...also somewhat disappointing that your report made no reference to the main thrust of my remarks, which contrasted Latin American realities with various stereotypes widely held in academic and journalistic circles in the United States. They included the stereotype of uniformity contrasted with reality of heterogeneity; the prevailing structure of social classes and the needed types of change; the opportunities for modernizing revolutions in contrast to violent social revolutions; the political options other than dictatorships of left or right or simon-pure liberal democracy; the nature of the 1964 Brazilian revolution and the Castello Branco regime; and the viability...
...outline, the Higher Education Act's seven titles (with an $841.4 million appropriation for 1966) affect everything from improving the cataloguing system of the Library of Congress to protecting campus fraternities from federal anti-discrimination rules. Its main features...