Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True enough, say the military, the number of battalion-and brigade-size sweeps against the enemy has not increased since the peace talks started. But they insist with pride that overall pressure on the Communists has increased-in the form of many more smaller-scale actions. Abrams has found that forays by sub-battalion-size units -companies, platoons, even squads -can be mounted more quickly, more often and in more places. Such surprise sweeps also achieve better results. Thus the general's sting-ray tactics, designed to interdict the movement of North Vietnamese units and supplies, involve the same...
...will quickly observe how every member of our little group here detests bigotry in the deepest part of his or her heart. (Most of us happen to be political Conservatives rather than Liberals, but this has nothing to do with our unanimous views toward inhumanity.) In an infinitely smaller sense, it is bad business (and bad sales) to be depreciatory toward geographic locations or abnormal unfortunates. Say 'For the tourists from Cornville' rather than 'For the tourists from Sioux City.' Say 'For the Gay Boys,' or similar, without scorn. We sell books. They buy them?much more than one would...
...believed that it might contribute, even slightly, to weapon development. Furthermore, extraordinary care has been exercised to assure that expensive new scientific projects like the Accelerator do not commit the university to permanent investment. When they have outlived their usefulness these facilities will be eliminated far more easily than smaller ones contributed by private donors in the past...
Though an autopsy showed that the fatal bullet was fired from a weapon smaller than the .38-caliber service revolvers carried by police, students charged brutality, and some, firing from behind logs, wounded five officers in a military-style ambush near the campus. University authorities sought to halt the violence by ordering the closing of the school by 6 p.m. Friday, and police and Guardsmen stood by on the perimeter of the campus to enforce the order. Early that morning, summoned by a report that the student-union building was being looted, police moved in and arrested several before sniper...
Many of those who did not, lie in the American cemetery near Saint-Lau-rent-sur-Mer, its 9,386 gleaming white marble crosses and stars of David overlooking a part of the beach called "Easy Red" 25 years ago. There are also 19 smaller British and Canadian cemeteries in the invasion area, and at La Cambe, one of four German cemeteries, 21,500 rest, guarded by a giant dark cross and the sculptures of two grieving parents. All the cemeteries are meticulously maintained by their governments...