Word: racks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army (ARVN) already does the lion's share of the fighting. But the 9th is the only major U.S. unit in the heavily populated and strategically important delta, and one of the most efficient in the country, using such hit-and-run tactics as night raids and ambushes to rack up the highest kill counts of any allied outfit...
...elbow gliding along toward his test tube rack, but there was nothing he could do about it. He watched as the rack and eighteen test tubes of proteins went into the air and hit the floor. It had seemed so inevitable, even if only for an instant, that he wondered why the girl was all upset. She was almost hysterical...
...heard "fuck" just about ten years ago, when I was in the fourth grade, and it sounded so fine. I used it with gusto for at least three months before some sixth-grader finally explained what it meant. After that, my friends and I whispered it behind the coat rack at school and shouted it down at the river bank. We believed that the sixth-graders had made it up and that no girl had ever heard it, because it was for men only...
...sense, now suggesting an elegance rare to Ex productions. They are, however, undone by a zipper. The settings, credited to Mr. Hart, are downright tacky. I will remember for some time the bed-chamber of Charles II, prominently decorated with what I take to be his priceless white hat-rack...
...keyboard section: a cutbook of figure bass on the piano rack. Miss Vosgerchian points to a twomeasure sequence. "Identify the situation," she tells a student. Her eyes narrow. A tentative smile. She stares into his face to coax the answer out. "Identify," she repeats. "In two words tell what is happening. Isn't it a five-one situation?" The student nods. "Oh it's painful, isn't it," she croons...