Word: mops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Stages. The pacification plan calls for three stages. First, U.S. troops will seek and smash Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in selected areas. Next, the South Vietnamese army will move in and mop up what is left of the enemy. At that point, exit the army and enter the region's own police force and popular forces, ready to defend themselves. A key to making this phase work will be the white-uniformed national police force ("the white mice") under Colonel Pham Van Lieu, who are already showing promise of developing into an effective countrywide law-enforcement...
Mann looked like a nightmare version of Santa Claus: a mop of white hair, a red, emphatic nose, and a tangle of untamed whiskers that parted beneath his chin. He also had the noisy energy of a stern-wheeler and the predacity of a buccaneer...
...will take back his electronic, talking Abe Lincoln from the Illinois pavilion, his moving cavemen from Ford, and his thousands of gay puppets from Pepsi-Cola's lively "Small World"; all will probably appear in Disneyland.' Though the Fair's wax museum has optioned its four mop-topped Beatles to a Cleveland customer for $6,000, it will simply shift some other figures to Broadway. There Charles de Gaulle will show up in the permanent display at Ripley's Believe...
...toward long hair. Says David Mauldin, the 15-year-old son of Cartoonist Bill Mauldin: "My father thinks it makes me look like a faggot." In their own defense, students point out that long hair has been a sign of virility ever since Samson, claim that they often grow mop tops because their girl friends want them...
...Spanish Armada. In July, he became the fourth matador in this century to be allowed to spare the life of his bull. In August, he became the first in history to fight 31 corridas in one month. And, barring illness or injury, by this time next month the mop-haired lad who calls himself "El Cordobés" will have killed more bulls and been awarded more of their ears in more fights before more people in one year than any other bullfighter who ever lived...