Word: mop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nine Dragons & Three Phases. The new doctrine is needed because the Viet Cong had long been brain-fed on Mao Tse-tung's legendary Three Phases to Communist triumph: 1) political activity, 2) guerrilla warfare, and 3) the final mop-up of the reeling enemy by large-scale fighting in conventional military formations. The U.S. intervened just as the Viet Cong were about to leave behind the rigors and hardships of Phase Two, and march out in strength to claim South Viet Nam. Since then they have tried periodic Phase Three attacks-and been badly mauled by American troops...
...Until 18 months ago, Leo Carter's job was to sweep, mop and polish the floors at Miami Beach's St. Francis Hospital. Today, as proprietor of The Best Floor Waxing Service, he is an entrepreneur with six employees. Mexican-born Joe Garcia, on relief in Manhattan eight months ago, now takes in about $240 a week as the operator of a midtown newsstand. David Flowers, who had to give up his job as a house painter after he injured his back in an auto crash, has become the owner of a thriving eight-pump, seven-employee service...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Ronny Howard, the mop-top moppet who scored in the film version of The Music Man, filches the laughs from Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Dina Merrill and Stella Stevens in The Courtship of Eddie's Father. Moral: never underestimate the power of a six-year-old who decides that his widower-father needs a mate...
Backers of Baltimore, which survived Sports Illustrated's curse to mop up the weak American League, point to the Orioles' fantastic hitting as a counter to the Dodgers' pitching...
...through the thatch, Beatle aides swept up the locks and sent them off to a German teen magazine for distribution to the faithful. "It's all right," said John. "I've got a new face now." The new face looked absolutely naked, but he figures that his mop will be normally back to seed in a month or two. Meantime, he might travel incognito for a change, or fob himself off as Peter Sellers...