Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control. They have killed no fewer than 15,000 local village chiefs since 1957, and regularly heave grenades into sidewalk cafes, detonate plastic bombs in hotels and use other tech niques that accounted for the loss of more than 2,000 lives last year. The terror is meant to slam home the message that nobody is safe anywhere, and that an enemy so ubiquitous must eventually win. In this much-practiced art, few horrors are new-but the Viet Cong are resourceful when it comes to terrorism. For the first time in the war, they have begun kidnaping people...
...Slam & Cheers...
...Slam" Marshall is right! With notable exceptions, the press and television are doing a miserable job of reporting meaningful facts in Viet Nam. As an operations officer in the Mekong Delta last year, I came in contact with numerous reporters and was amazed by the inexperience, prejudice and hostility of some who, it seemed, had already written their stories (at least mentally) before leaving the U.S. Their stories usually wound up as half-baked concoctions of half-truths completely unrelated to what was really going on. People know how bad reporting really is because those doing the fighting write home...
...foreign aid appropriations bill, which pushed through the Senate 52 to 22 after a slam-bang 21 hours of debate. The Senate slashed $110,000,000 off a House-approved version of the measure, finally passed a $2.94 billion total - which was well below the Administration's request ($3.4 billion) and marked the lowest foreign aid appropriation since 1957. The House quickly voted 189 to 89 to accept the Senate figure...
Despite the rule against "suggestive posture," Paul Lukas, with nimble hand, and Sally Blane, with ample thigh, cavorted in 1933's Grand Slam. Despite strictures against double-entendre, Mae West scarcely needed to be more direct than when she observed, "I like a man who takes his time." Later, the code's prohibition against "lustful embraces" did not stop Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr from wrestling all over a Hawaii beach in From Here to Eternity. And scarcely anybody paid any attention to the taboo against "explicit treatment of adultery...