Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion more to keep even in the war. McNamara insisted that even though the bombing was exacting a high price, it was not cutting the southward flow of men and supplies from Hanoi. "I am simply saying," he told the Senators, "that I have seen no evidence of any kind . . . that an accelerated campaign of air attacks against the North in the past would have reduced our casualties in the South...
...guerrillas, Che had to hire men off the streets with promises of jobs, then terrorize them into fighting for him. "The inhabitants of the region are as impenetrable as rocks," he scribbled in his notebook. "You talk to them, and in the depths of their eyes it can be seen that they don't believe." The day before he was captured, Che wrote that his dwindling band had questioned a local woman about nearby troops and got nowhere. "She was given 50 pesos and cautioned to say nothing," Che wrote, "but with little confidence that she would keep...
...wacky mod world of today's Britain. His clothes are traditional British tweeds and flannels. His hair, once shaggy locks that obscured his forehead, is now somewhat better tamed and brushed to the side. He goes to the theater in London occasionally, but has never been seen at a nightclub and, aside from sneaking a cherry brandy as a schoolboy, is known to drink nothing stiffer than an occasional sip of champagne. He does not smoke. He is good at gentlemen's sports-polo, shooting, sailing-but does not have any interest in such traditional British team sports...
...four years since his first trip to Vietnam--in the last year of the Diem regime--have seen an "opening up of political process" in Vietnam, Huntington says. The September 3 election, in which the winning Thieu-Ky ticket received 35 per cent of the votes, was "very beneficial" in increasing national political consciousness, which Huntington found to exist in a high degree even in rural areas...
Donelli said after the game that he was "somewhat perturbed to see Domres (Lion quarterback Marty) run so much in the first quarter. I would much rather have seen him throw more." Luckily for the Crimson, he started throwing in earnest only when the game was already decided...