Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Westmoreland sees the assault on Khe Sanh as the capstone of a three-phase campaign devised by Giap last September to win the war. Some captured documents show that Communist cadres in South Viet Nam have been told that the first three months of this year are the crucial period. During this period they are urged to win a decisive victory, which in turn will be followed by a coalition government dictated by the Viet Cong...
...Period. Another way of decorating is through the "ten-percenter," often a dilettante who, with no formal design training and as little as two years of experience working with a decorator, obtains a wholesale discount card and works for 10% of what the customer intends to spend. To the dismay of reputable professional decorators, who usually take the entire 30% to 40% retail markup as their fee, "ten-percenters" are overrunning the field. "You have to stand in line at the fabric houses because of them," sighs one San Francisco decorator...
Whatever the cost and whoever the decorator, the look that is in vogue in the '60s is openly, eclectic (see color pages). States Sears, Roebuck's Director of Design Richard D. Butler: "The period room is a thing of the past." With the prices of authentic antiques soaring as the worldwide supply diminishes, it was inevitable. The decorator, as a consequence, has become an artful mix master...
Suffering from poor timing as a result of exam period inactivity, the Crimson and B.C. traded mistakes for much of the frame. Harvard managed another tally at the midway point on Terry Driscoll's slap shot. Retaliating when the Yardling's were shorthanded, B.C. scored past substitute goalie Ted Rumsey...
...freshly felt impact of the urban school failure has plunged the School of Education into a period of "malaise," "worried questioning," and redirected inquiry, according to the annual report of Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of the School of Education...