Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chuong Thien province, a battalion of South Vietnamese infantrymen walked into a trap. One company was hit as its American-piloted helicopters put down in the paddy-and-palmetto plains between the Nuoc Trong and Cai Lon rivers. Four "slicks" (troop-carrying choppers) were shot out of the sky by Chinese-built 7.9-mm. antiaircraft cannons; another four "gunships" (helicopters carrying rockets and machine guns for close support) dropped like stones. Moments later, a Medevac chopper was downed-the ninth helicopter to fall in as many minutes. Pinned down behind low paddyfield dikes, the South Vietnamese called for air strikes...
...were a pure realist." And his present popularity? "I'm just appalled and amazed at the way in which people are interested in my paintings. I think it's because I happen to paint things that reflect the basic truths of life: sky, earth, friends, the intimate things. People are drawn to my work by common feelings that go beyond...
Under the Big Sky...
...will never complain about the wind again. I will thank God every day of my life that I am privileged to live in this Big Sky country. But what is more to the point, I will support every effort to alleviate air pollution elsewhere and to prevent it in Montana...
...sky rumbles with televisions . . . . . . None of the little anthracite rabbits with carrot pink eyes are real. I know that now and feel burdened with all the eternal veritles. The ground beneath me is as soft as the tongue of an old giraffe. Where are we now, darlings? This suitcase has lost its charm...