Word: notches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson is more certain than ever that the air war is badly hurting Hanoi and that the best way to get peace talks started is not to relax the pressure but to keep it up. Accordingly, he moved to tighten the screws "another notch or two," as he put it. From bases in Thailand, U.S. F-105s streaked to the big Thai Nguyen steel complex 28 miles north of Hanoi and damaged it severely (see THE WORLD...
Every time a U.S. plane strafes a truck convoy or bombs out a bridge, the cost of Hanoi's involvement in South Viet Nam goes up another notch. Still, the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint by sparing a long list of choice and vital targets. The roster of restricted areas includes the docks of Haiphong harbor, the MIG jet fighter bases that ring Hanoi and the 25-mile zone bordering Red China, which is increasingly used as a sanctuary for truck convoys bringing supplies from China. Last week the U.S. decided to raise the North's costs considerably...
Elizabeth Traube, who plays Hedvig, imparts a lot of energy to the role. What's more, she is a convincing 14-year-old. But she sometimes sounds a notch too intelligent even for such an obviously precocious girl, while sometimes her movements seem overly childish...
...university 13 years ago, Brandeis has had to balance graduate and undergraduate teaching. Although he admitted graduate programs tie down professors who otherwise might teach undergraduates, Sachar defended Brandeis' university status. He pointed out that colleges like Reed, without extensive research facilities, are having trouble holding on to top notch instructors...
What has accounted for this amazing reversal by the team which used to function as the bath mat of the League? Money. Or to be more explicit a spanking new pool which lures top-notch high school stars to Hanover...