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...years ago this month, the North Vietnamese swept down the map like the blade of a guillotine. They came in full divisions, with artillery and tanks. They banged across the countryside like Patton. It was no longer the endless, hallucinatory Viet Nam at all, but blitzkrieg, Western war, all of those years of inconclusive struggle finished off briskly in a short, surreal spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Bloody Rite of Passage | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...could choose a village for obliteration between mouthfuls of tapioca pudding just by thumping a map on his dining-room table in the White House, aides deferential, servants quiet. The killing was half a world away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Lyndon Johnson's Personal Alamo | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...when they get this panic-but in the voods they make a big circle. After they run this big circle three or four times, they fall on the ground, because they are so tried with their tongue hanging out one foot. Then they remember they have the compass and map in their pockits. When they look at map and use compass, they come to their car, only two blocks away. Bet Mike forgot the map and compass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Nick... Mail From Duluth | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...half to look at map to see vere dis town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Nick... Mail From Duluth | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...every concert . . . and knew each other well by sight, the arrangement was regularly disturbed by the audience's imperative need to share its pleasures," Pasternak recalls. The listeners "shifted, straggled, and clustered," taking their chairs with them. "By the end of the evening the seating had turned into a map charting the music's magnetic field of attraction and repulsion. Not a row survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speak, Memory a Vanished Present: the Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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