Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Possible & Potent. Typical of the results of the new tactic was an earlier Junction City battle in Tay Ninh. A U.S. deep patrol of platoon size flushed out what appeared to be two enemy companies on a heavily jungled hillside. Within two minutes of the first exchange of shots, more than 30 U.S. artillery pieces, all moved up the previous day to cover the patrol, were pounding the enemy. But the two Viet Cong companies proved to be two battalions instead, and the U.S. platoon was hard pressed when, 15 minutes after the artillery opened up, the first fighter-bombers...
...mauled that they could no longer operate as units. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese have themselves countered with fresh tactics, including deep patrols of their own. But the enemy's main thrust has been at forward U.S. artillery batteries that make American deep patrols both possible and potent. In recent weeks the Communists have launched frantic attacks at U.S. forward fire bases from Camp Carroll along the Demilitarized Zone to Bong Son near the eastern coast. When mortaring, though, they have only two minutes to do their damage: that is just how long it takes U.S. guns...
...also significant for the unfolding history of the United States? Does it portend a new era with a new class struggling successfully for power; a new and potent force trying to re-arrange events closer to its heart's desire...
...bananas really work? The best that chemists can suggest is that bananas contain serotonin, a neurochemical that is closely related to such potent mind-benders as psilocybin and dimethyl tryptamine, and which just might, under combustion, trigger genuine physiological effects. It is far more likely that any high produced by bananas is imaginary, another indication that, given a receptive state of mind, it is possible to turn on with practically anything-or virtually nothing. Witness the fact that some undergraduates, dissatisfied with mellow yellow, are already beginning to tout the high potentiality of yet another new ingredient: spider webs...
Like all other potent medicines, the pills produce many incidental effects. Some are good, some bad. Largely because of the thalidomide disaster, which occurred soon after the pills went on the market, many women are leary of them. Says a 31-year-old Houston woman who has only two children: "I'm just not convinced that the doctors know all they need to know about the pills yet, and their possible side effects." In fact, the doctors know a great deal...