Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Independent One. The daughter of South Viet Nam's present Ambassador to the U.S., Mme. Ngo married at 15, was soon smack in the middle of her country's resistance first to the French, and then to the Communists. Thrown into prison in 1946, she escaped, joined the partisans. Today, in her bustling office in the palace, which because of its busyness she calls Le Moulin (the mill), she handles a bewildering assortment of visitors and letters asking every sort of favor, from help in curbing an abusive husband to advice on a Latin essay. She manages...
Early Life. Born with the name of Herbert Frahm, on Dec. 18, 1913, the son of an unskilled laborer in the German Baltic port of Lübeck. At 17 joined the Socialist Party, fought against Nazis in street brawls. In 1933 fled on a fishing smack to Norway (where he had distant relatives), one leap ahead of Hitler's Gestapo...
...landing craft finally ducked clear of the firing and headed into Quemoy's south coast. At 1:30 the bowlip slammed down, revealing a ghostly white beach. Communist shells were pounding over. We ran for it, and came smack up against barbed wire. Ducking into a bunker, we watched the second landing barge glide by like a sea monster. The third landing craft, carrying a group of U.S. military assistance advisory personnel, tore its bottom on an underwater barricade, and the U.S. officers, their gear lost, slogged ashore through neck-deep water...
...hands, the Nationalist bastion of Formosa, about 120 miles to the east, would still be screened by the Pescadores Islands (see map). But the Nationalist garrisons of the offshore islands mock Mao Tse-tung on his very doorstep. (Tatan and Erhtan, with a combined area of 143 acres, lie smack in the mouth of Amoy harbor only 2½ miles from shore.) Moreover, since Formosa itself was under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945 and has a strong separatist tradition, the islands of the Quemoy complex-together with Matsu and a handful of other islets to the north-constitute...
...biggest discovery came in 1956. The Texas Co. tried to get other companies to come in on a deal to drill in the Aneth section of southeastern Utah, where the lease was about to expire, found no takers, and finally went reluctantly ahead itself. Result: it bored smack into the Aneth pool with estimated reserves of 300 million bbls., the biggest find since the Williston Basin seven years...