Word: mapped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some victories soon over the Red guerrillas. In the third month after the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the Viet Cong still reign supreme in 13 of the country's 43 provinces. The Communists control half of Long An Province on Saigon's southern flank (see map). From the fifth-floor terrace bar of the city's Majestic Hotel, idlers can view both bikini-clad girls water-skiing on the Saigon River and, in the distance, puffs of smoke rising from clashes between government and Viet Cong guerrilla patrols...
...Stars and Stripes were unfurled at Balboa (see map). Before long, a crowd of 150 Panamanian high school students appeared carrying Panama's national emblem. At that point, say U.S. officials, "there was no more trouble than you'd expect at a Yale-Princeton football game." The students were told to go home and headed peacefully back across the line. But there a mob was ready and waiting -older men, this time, including Castroites and ultranationalists, and armed with guns and Molotov cocktails. A cry went up that the Panamanian flag had been trampled by Americans...
...map was found in Oswald's possession showing the scene of the assassination and the bullet's trajectory...
...Today Mr. Wade announced that authorities had also found a marked map, showing the course of the President's motorcade, in Oswald's rented room. 'It was a map tracing the location of the parade route,' the district attorney said, 'and this place [the Texas School Book Depository, a warehouse from which the fatal shots were fired] was marked with a straight line.' Mr. Wade said Oswald had marked the map at two other place, 'apparently places which he considered a possibility for an assassination.'" (New York Times...
...comes in an envelope the size of a legal pad. It has words: eight close-printed pages describing everything from Nelson's birth in a Norfolk parsonage to his burial in St. Paul's. And to go with the words are eleven graphic exhibits-a map, a battle plan, paintings and a detailed cutaway drawing of Nelson's flagship Victory, plus facsimiles of a crucial Nelson memorandum of the London Times of Nov. 7, 1805, and of ten signal flags by which Nelson told his fleet in code, ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY...