Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a malfunction on the radar screen. Aircraft from the carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation were overhead by this time and saw nothing much either. However, four seamen aboard Turner Joy and one man aboard Maddox did report seeing silhouettes of a ship, and sailors said they saw a searchlight stab momentarily through the darkness. There were also sonar reports of as many as 22 torpedoes, though critics of the Pentagon pointed out that a sonarman may have mistaken the sound made by the engine of his vessel for torpedoes...
...week's only successful Communist stab was made at Lang Vei, a hilltop U.S. Special Forces camp four miles southwest of Khe Sanh on Route 9. Basically a post for interdicting Communist movement into the South and for overseeing allied patrols into nearby Laos, Lang Vei was defended by some 400 South Vietnamese and Montagnard irregulars and 24 Green Berets, operating out of a deeply dug bunker made of three feet of rein forced concrete and two-inch steel plate, complete with its own ventilation system. As much as any place can be in Viet Nam, it seemed...
...University did not have to compensate for the absence of a well-defined policy by means of an arbitrary stab at deterrance. It should not have tried. The consequences of civil disobedience have now been made clear. The Administrative Board should terminate the probations at the earliest opportunity...
...trade, the revelation of guilt which confutes the reader's expectations. MacDonald transforms a mechanical gimmick into a genuinely horrifying reversal, in each case significant, completely unexpected, and carefully prepared. A reader finds such glimpses of horror throughout the Archer books, and just as often he feels the disturbing stab of empathy with a murderer which MacDonald evokes so well...
...type who recites poetry and cherishes her femininity. Harold is more deeply nonplussed than he was by the notion of his wife's surrender to a typical minstrel man who is also a switch blade artist and a sexual athlete. Playgoers may be equally nonplussed by the belated stab at seriousness, especially after Friedman's nightlong skill at making race a laughing matter...