Word: seales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latter, commanders in the field insist that at least 750,000 men will be required to permit the allies to seal off the South's sievelike borders and to send perhaps two divisions into the Mekong Delta, the southernmost section of the country. "Something has got to be done in the delta or you aren't going to win this war," said a high-ranking U.S. officer in Saigon. "Half the people in the country live there. We've got to control the delta, but we haven't got the men to send in there...
...Percy left Chicago last week, he replied: "It is impossible for me to say at this time when I will be able to resume my own candidacy. Whenever you resume your campaign, I will understand completely." It was a savage irony, for the death of Valerie Percy will probably seal a victory for Chuck Percy in November that had already seemed almost within his grasp...
...such U.S. dams as Grand Coulee can generate downstream. Half that extra power will be Bennett's, and he has already sold it to a consortium of U.S. power companies for a sum that more than pays for the dams. When Lyndon Johnson and Lester Pearson put a seal on the deal at a ceremonial inauguration at the Friendship Arch straddling the border 30 miles south of Vancouver, Johnson noted that Bennett's check for the power came to exactly $253,929,534.25, and drew a chuckle from the crowd with the wry comment that "the Canadians even...
Ratifying the Changes. The code was in tatters by 1953, when the Motion Picture Producers Association refused to grant its seal of approval to Otto Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, because it dealt frivolously with seduction. Preminger thumbed his nose and distributed the picture anyway, benefiting from reams of publicity about the dialogue, which actually dared to use the word virgin...
...needs the A.M.A. seal of approval...