Word: rested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days when I'll know my husband is safe. I find worrying about the other 360 days of his tour very depressing. R & R is one brief respite from the terrible burden of responsibility that any officer lives with day and night. Winnie Poteete says wives could use rest and recuperation. If you will stack 24 of your hours against 24 of his, Mrs. Poteete...
...province in Viet Nam. Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army in Viet Nam, calls the pressure "heavy and sustained" in I Corps, in the area around Saigon, in the Chu Lai area and around Bong Son on the coastal plains-and "sporadic" all over the rest of the country...
...produce more than one or two on any single occasion. U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg has persistently dismissed their claims, lists no more than 365 missing G.I.s since the late 1940s. In Japan, where the 36,000 American troops are regularly augmented by thousands of G.I.s on R & R (rest and recreation) from Viet Nam, pacifist and peace groups have had no better luck. Indeed, U.S. desertions worldwide, including the Viet Nam command, are running on a par with the Korean War (two per 1,000) and at a rate considerably lower than World...
...reportedly crowed to his male colleagues at a party meeting last month. Premier Chou En-lai was more chivalric about it: "In recent months Comrade Chiang Ching worked night and day for the revolution-and the hard work has affected her health. We therefore ask that she get some rest and recreation...
...enables it to discharge and pick up divers far below the water's surface. When pressure in the divers' compartment has been built up to equal the water pressure outside, a hatch drops open, enabling the divers to depart. When they come back, they can eat and rest in the still-pressurized compartment and then return to work in the watery depths without ever having to undergo a time-consuming decompression process...