Word: meek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Destroyed Myth. The jubilant Indian press last week printed the army's claim to have already destroyed 284 U.S.-built Patton tanks, which had never before been battle-tested. The progress of the war, crowed the Indian Express, "destroys much of the myth of the meek and mild Hindus as it has the legend of the superiority of the American-built and American-supplied Patton tanks and Sabre jets...
Mecklin was in the thick of the skirmishes between the U.S. press, the Saigon government and the U.S. embassy, and very much in the midst of the bitter political battles that ended the career and the life of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Yet "Meek the Knife" emerged from his difficult tour of duty to write an excellent account of the South Vietnamese war which he called Mission in Torment (see BOOKS). Author Mecklin had unique credentials for the task, having reported the .disastrous French campaign against the Communists and the establishment of the Diem regime for TIME between...
MISSION IN TORMENT By John Meek-I'm. 318 pages. Doubleday...
...musical is complete without children, and this one boasts 15 active urchins, running and jumping and singing to no apparent purpose. It also has its giant, who, in his minute or so, brings down the house with a meek "Ho, ho, ho," which is at least funny, if still meaningless...
...Where is the integrity of the West German government in its meek surrender to Egyptian blackmail [Feb. 19]? And where is the good sense of the U.S. Government when it tiptoes around instead of positively and proudly meeting the defense requirements of Israel, the only Western-oriented country in the Middle East...