Word: reconstructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese admit losing more than 17,000 men during this period. Despite the intensity of recent fighting-a last-minute Communist flurry before" the monsoons set in-few in Saigon expect a major Communist offensive. Through interrogation of defectors, South Vietnamese intelligence experts have been able to reconstruct a major document based upon a North Vietnamese strategy directive. The document is Central Office for South Viet Nam (COSVN) Resolution 12, designed to inform cadres of party goals and methods...
...himself is becoming, in fact, his most famous and only predictable trait. The writer who went from Portnoy's Complaint to political satire (Our Gang), and thence to Kafkaesque fantasy (The Breast) is now so impatient that he cannot even wait to complete this book before trying to reconstruct himself. In My Life as a Man, he switches persona in mid-volume. The result is superb as a performance and uneven as a book (or rather, two books). It leads, finally, to some questions. Does a kind of bravura restlessness now not only characterize Roth but constitute the heart...
...continued to commute freely between a lucrative business career in New York and Arizona and Government service. A tall, rangy man who had to wear an eye patch because of a fishing accident in 1949, Douglas helped shape, and as ambassador helped carry out, the Marshall Plan to reconstruct postwar Western Europe...
...Spartacist League, a national organization, "seeks to build a revolutionary party in the United States and to reconstruct a Trotskyist Fourth International," Foster said...
...promising any easy solutions," said Leigh. "We are not saying that now the nightmare is over. We have to work hard. We will do what the politicians in the past 50 years in this country did not do. We want to reconstruct the country with our own resources, our own effort. We have made no compromises with anyone. We have our hands clean to operate. We are not politicians and we are not trying...