Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrowly escaped being captured by rebellious troops last July when he went to Wuhan, China's transportation hub and fifth-largest city, to bring a revolting commander to heel. Nor is Mao's dream of a China holding hands in a single, beatific chanting chain any nearer. The many months of character assassination, chaos, instigated lawlessness and near civil war have taken a terrible toll on nearly every human, political and economic resource in China...
...field. After waging a tireless cross-country campaign, he came to last week's Liberal Party convention in Ottawa as a front runner. At week's end Trudeau was elected party leader on the fourth ballot by a vote of 1,203 to 954 over the nearer of his two main opponents. Thus he will formally succeed Pearson as Prime Minister some time later this month...
...cloud of carbon dioxide in a darkened room, then by propping up the unconscious body of one of the killer's underlings and using a face mask-a favorite IMF ploy-to make him look like Phelps. The killer shoots at the face, but as he walks nearer, the mask dissolves and he finds that he has rubbed...
Familiar Aim. To meet the threat to Khe Sanh, General William Westmoreland has built up the base's garrison to more than 5,000 Marines in a hasty airlift of troops and equipment that suspended all civilian air traffic throughout Viet Nam. Other allied units shifted nearer the scene of the impending battle to be ready if needed, including a 1st Cavalry (airmobile) brigade helicoptered to Phu Bai, only 45 minutes' flying time from Khe Sanh. For what looked more and more like the first classic conventional battle on a major scale of the Viet Nam war, Westmoreland...
Nadas expressed the fear that the publicity may lead people to "the false hope that they can buy a new heart from the heart bank. I'm worried that people may think this is nearer and more available than...