Word: oft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eloquence made him both part architect and chief prophet of a united Europe; of kidney disease; in Brussels. Though he did not live to see the political European union he envisioned, he could take major credit for a new feeling and policy of common concern among Europe's oft-warring nations. Trained in law, Spaak was first elected to the Belgian parliament in 1932 as a Socialist; by 1938 he had become his country's youngest Prime Minister. When Belgium fell to the Nazis in 1940, Spaak fled to London and returned after the war to Belgium...
...reminded again by a recent issue of TIME of that oft-repeared "canard", if that is the word, that the idea of the Marshall Plan was born, or at least first exposed to the public, in a Commencement Address by George Marshall in June...
...similar episode occurred early in the Communist offensive. An ARVN force of 20 or 30 troops found itself surrounded by the North Vietnamese near An Loc. As the South Vietnamese fought the Communists oft, the three American advisers with the ARVN unit radioed for an evacuation helicopter. When the tiny chopper arrived, it was rushed by desperate South Vietnamese troops; some of them grabbed the American crew chief and tried to throw him off. The overloaded machine finally got airborne after several hard bounces along the ground; one ARVN soldier aboard was swinging from the legs of an American adviser...
...moment, the answers were all held by General Giap, North Viet Nam's legendary lord of the battlefield. More than likely, he was methodically measuring the odds in terms of his oft-repeated principle: "Strike to win, strike only if success is certain; if it is not, then don't strike...
...loss for the company of $310,000.) The really damaging blow came in January, when the Federal Communications Commission took away the corporation's TV license in order to diversify local media ownership. The corporation had fought 24 years for clear title to the license in a complex, oft-contested case, the official records of which fill 172 volumes...