Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room to another flow the sounds of whirring mixers, juicers and garbage grinders, babbling radios and television sets, humming refrigerators and air conditioners. The air conditioner's metallic threnody, in fact, is one of the important new sounds of America. It hangs in the air above close-nestled, rich communities like the thrum of some giant insect infestation, and it is setting neighbor against neighbor, township against contractor, and contractor against manufacturer...
Neck-High. But the fact is that the South Vietnamese do not possess the men or equipment or mobility to conduct sustained operations. Thus for some time they have barely been able to hold their own. Since the rice-rich Delta must be cleaned out if the war is to be won, what is clearly required is American manpower and gunpower. As a result, U.S. military commanders have been giving increasing attention to the need for U.S. troops in what has been the exclusive war of the Delta's IV Corps commander, Lieut. General Dang Van Quang...
...stately, rich in emblem and the work...
Minor Jackpots. On that site ten years ago, an amateur woman digger turned up pieces of pottery jars that apparently had once held oil or wine snipped from the Eastern Mediterranean about A.D. 500. Since only a rich king or warlord could have imported such luxuries at the time, Camelot cultists were quick to speculate that Arthur's legendary headquarters were buried somewhere near by. Led by famed archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British scholars eventually mustered a "Camelot Research Committee" to raise cash and reconnoiter the 18-acre site...
...Anderson, a triple-threat halfback from Texas Tech, had signed a $600,000 contract with Green Bay, and Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski was a $300,000 Packer bonus baby. If anything, that only made it harder on them; the Packers were in no mood to play favorites-particularly with rich rookies who soon would be trying to take their jobs away...