Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese government outpost near the Cambodian border, Tong Le Chan, some 400 ARVN troops were surrounded by an entire Communist regiment, and large-scale fighting there seemed to be imminent. Some intelligence experts predict a general surge of Communist military activity later this month...
...share of national attention last year by producing Berlioz' Les Troyens, a mammoth two-part work that more established companies had been avoiding for years. Earlier this year the Boston Opera did a politicized Bartered Bride, and this weekend it's putting on Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment, with Kitty Carlisle of To Tell the Truth in a speaking role and Beverly Sills in a singing...
...OPERA COMPANY OF BOSTON. The Daughter of the Regiment. The Opera Company's version of Donizetti, with Beverly Sills and Kitty Carlisle...
...congenital eye defect condemned him to thick lenses and excluded him from the wide fraternity of athleticism. Reserved, almost withdrawn as a boy, he read every book in the local library. Later, because he was essentially lonely, he became a joiner. In 1918, his field-artillery regiment was sent to France, where Captain Truman for the first time on record displayed the cockerel courage that was to characterize his career. Later he recalled his greeting to the battery: "I told them I knew they had been making trouble for the previous commanders. I said, 'I didn't come...
...Pendergast walked into the failing store, leaned an elbow on the counter, and asked whether Truman would be interested in running for county judge in Jackson County-which includes Kansas City. The offer was apparently made because Boss Pendergast's nephew Jim had served in Truman's regiment. Having no better prospects at the time, Truman said...