Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colonel Le Quang Tung, in charge of the Special Forces, and Brigadier General Ton That Dinh, commander of the III Army Corps and military governor of Saigon, a dapper graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, who wears a red beret, carries a swagger stick, and likes to be accompanied on military operations by his own photographer. Of South Viet Nam's 17 generals, Dinh is one of two who actually have troops at their disposal; the other, Brigadier General Nguyen Khanh, is located in a fighting area hundreds of miles north of Saigon...
Lacking prestige in the pedagogic pecking order, vo-ed teachers stick together in the self-protective American Vocational Association, a strong anchor for the status quo in vo-ed teaching. According to Executive Secretary M. D. Mobley, who heads up the A.V.A.'s persistent Washington lobby, what the U.S. needs is plenty of home economics courses. "The most enduring nations of the world" he says, "are those that have maintained good homes...
...patience. Whether breaking up a race riot or gingerly plucking anti-nuclear squatters from the pavement, the brawny, pink-cheeked bobby almost never resorts to the panicky brutality of the French flic or the officious zeal of the German Polizist. Britain's police, armed only with a night stick, still believe in pounding a beat. Its streets and parks after dark are among the world's safest; and while an English householder is away on vacation, likely as not the bobbies will keep an eye on his front door. But in recent years, and particularly since the Profumo...
...patch of land, if they lack preparation and the necessary elements to cultivate it." On uneconomic small plots carved out of land fit only for cattle-grazing or large-scale farming, peasants often fall hopelessly in debt or become victims of land speculators. Those who still use the wooden stick plows of their grandfathers can scarcely scratch out a living on plots that average only twelve acres. On remaining private farms with prime land and modern machinery, production runs about 20% ahead of the ejidos...
...electronic umbilical cord. After settling its tripod feet firmly on the Martian surface, a miniature vacuum cleaner will suck dust into a thin-lipped opening in the multivator's base. As the dust filters through the multivator's 15 tiny chambers, it will stick to their adhesive-coated walls. Then the chambers will be automatically sealed and filled with water from a small external tank...