Word: middings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were thinking in the old way of victory on the battlefield, and troops conventionally trained by the U.S. were a little like the British redcoats fighting in lines as they engaged in forest skirmishes against the American colonists and their Indian allies. Clumsy U.S. battalions in the mid-1960s were out of place in the jungles, swamps and highlands of South Viet Nam. The excitement of technology became an almost spiritual feeling among the military. Generals thought that bigger, faster weapons systems, particularly against peasants, would...
...that Washington would honor its commitments abroad. So did Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. Despite Senator Mike Mansfield's renewed call for the withdrawal of substantial numbers of the 300,000 American servicemen now in Europe, Laird pledged to maintain U.S. forces at their present level until at least mid-1971. To offset the departure of 6,000 Canadian troops, the British agreed to assign six additional combat brigades to Germany. Because NATO forces are outnumbered 2 to 1 on the crucial central front and would be quickly overrun in the event of an all-out ground attack, the NATO...
...prototype of the dashing Cockney photographer"-and the prototype for the hero of Blow-Up. Other photographers, of course, collected a lot of money and a lot of girls. But few did it with Bailey's flair. A tailor's apprentice at 15, he was in his mid-20s when he bought his first two-tone Rolls-Royce (light blue on dark blue). At about the same time, he was traveling the world with his favorite model, Jean Shrimpton. Since then, there have been other cars, other trips, other girls. Now 31, Bailey has an annual income...
...stage, she had a voice as brassy as Ethel Merman's and a tongue as agile as Dorothy Parker's; she made her Broadway debut in 1931's Here Goes the Bride, scored hits in 1943's Voice of the Turtle, 1953's Mid Summer and 1966's The Butter and Egg Man revival, and appeared in more than 200 TV shows, most notably The Man Who Came to Dinner and Burlesque...
...number of Eastern colleges that depend heavily upon Canadian talent is only a handful, but the extent to which they depend upon it, and the success with which they have been able to dominate Eastern hockey since the mid-60's is incredible...