Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guns. In one barrage last week, the Communists sent 903 artillery, mortar, rocket and recoilless-rifle shells whistling into the perimeter around Con Thien's three barren, red clay hills-probably the greatest single Red bombardment of the war. In August, the leathernecks took 388 casualties along the northern defense line that stretches from the South China Sea to Khe Sanh in the mountainous borderlands near Laos; in September, more than 2,200 Marines were killed and wounded...
...envision," says a high-ranking Marine officer, "Con Thien's being overrun. It is a symbol in people's minds, but what we're talking about is the entire defense of the northern area. We are facing a major invasion. It's either fight it off or give...
...spring of 1776, delegates from six of the 13 colonies came to the Continental Congress under instructions to vote against separation from Britain. Merchants, officeholders, landowners, cobblers, farmers-Tory Americans by the tens of thousands were hostile to the rebels. Virtually the entire Anglican clergy of the middle and northern states were solidly behind the British King. In New York City, Philadelphia, and parts of the Carolinas and Georgia, the loyalists outnumbered the patriots...
...Abraham Lincoln-so recently a peace partisan himself-ironically was plagued by peace movements that all but destroyed the militancy of his cause. Northern foes of the war, contemptuously labeled "Copperheads" after the snake that strikes without warning, held a mass meeting in the President's own hometown of Springfield, Ill. They resolved that "a further offensive prosecution of this war tends to subvert the Constitution and the Government." Secret societies were formed on both sides. Southerners who called themselves "Heroes of America" gave clandestine support to the Union; Northerners organized as "Knights of the Golden Circle" recruited troops...
...real sense, Nigeria's tribal antagonisms are the product of modernization's pressures. The Ibo's skills--and their ambition and industriousness--embittered the backward Hausas, particularly after Ibos captured most of the skilled jobs in the Northern Region. Hausa envy, inflamed by Ibo arrogance, goes a long way toward explaining the tribal explosion...