Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Rich Refuge. No one doubts that Yankee ingenuity will solve many of these problems. Already, in fact, U.S. technology is at work in the water war. Plastic-hulled airboats with airplane propellers ply the canals leading from Cambodia. On the navigable waterways the U.S. Navy's Operation Market Time employs a fleet of 120 water-jet-powered patrol boats armed with machine guns and grenade launchers...
Demanding though the battle for the Delta will be, the rewards of cutting into the enemy's last rich refuge in Viet Nam will more than justify it. Even at unquiet stalemate-and occasionally in conditions of local accommodation between Viet Cong and government commanders-the Delta war has long been yielding up to a fourth of the enemy's losses each month. And the enemy's manpower squeeze has already begun to seep down into the Delta, making it more than ever ripe for American thrusting. Not long ago the government captured an unprecedented 55 soldiers...
...faculty can easily unmask the student deferment as discriminatory, since it basically protects only those fortunate or rich enough to stay in college and graduate school until they are no longer draftable...
...student described 2-S as a "class-conscious deferment which protects only those who are rich or fortunate enough to stay in school until they are no longer draftable." A number of professors at the conference complained that the student deferment had placed a "false value" on formal education by allowing students to avoid the draft and "hide in the endless catacombs of education...
...chorus more than made up for what it lacked dramatically by its singing. It blended well, producing a remarkably rich sound for a group of only fourteen voices. The women sustained the more lyrical phrases far better than the men, and consequently the best choruses were the more bouncy ones, like the "Ho, ho!" responses to the first witches' scene. The chorus' intonation was nearly flawless, and every word was intelligible...