Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But one party in this pageant was dead serious. As Premier Souvanna returned from his royal audience, Pathet Lao rebels crossed the Nam Ma river in force and threatened the northern provincial center of Samneua. The attack was headed by five Communist-led battalions reported to have crossed the northeastern...
"It seems to me that the American people are always denied the benefit of the doubt. When they get excited and start calling for the Marines and generally throwing their weight about, they are castigated for being hysterical children. Yet when they remain calm and unruffled, they are castigated for...
For a nation so young and still so weak, such a stand was courageous and decidedly overambitious. "These United States of America," snorted Austria's Prince Metternich, "have astonished Europe by a new act of revolt, more unprovoked, fully as audacious and no less dangerous than the former"-meaning...
When Jazz Impresario George Wein heard these lines, hastily composed by Poet Langston Hughes last week, he "bawled like a baby." Most of the backers of the Newport Jazz Festival bawled with him. When the biggest jazz bash in the country was closed down in the wake of drunken rioting...
"It was an operation that might have been questionable for the U.S. Marines," said Mauston District Attorney Roland Vieth. It was also an operation that had destroyed the pleasures of their new homeland for the bereaved parents. Peter Kurylak, whose lost twelve-year-old, Orest, had been born in a...