Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vietnamese have made public statements indicating that they intend a permanent occupation of the border region, depriving the guerrillas of their comfortable zone of sanctuary. If the K.P.N.L.F. intends to fight on, it will probably have to abandon static defenses in favor of more classic guerrilla tactics, dispersing its strength and moving deeper into the Kampuchean countryside. Said one analyst in Thailand: "If you're going to be a proper guerrilla, you can't be protecting large, fixed bodies of civilians...
...that television viewers saw on CBS on Jan. 23, 1982, was glossy and seamless. In The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, CBS's Mike Wallace, his voice resonating with authority, charged that there had been a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to underreport enemy troop strength in Viet Nam in order to deceive President Lyndon Johnson and the American people into believing that the U.S. was winning...
Ralph: Be of good cheer, Wanda. Your doting husband understands and accepts your ideological commitment to grimness. But surely even a fearless feminist needn't be a sourpuss in the privacy of her own home. Now how about a nice industrial-strength smile? I can assure you that the Bureau of Feminist Rectitude will never hear about it from...
...first David Abraham, assistant professor of history at Princeton, was rightly proud. Initial reviews of his book, The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis, had sung high praise. "Intellectually and stylistically weighty," declared the Library Journal. This "book's strength is its thought-provoking interpretation," wrote a second critic. And a reader of the manuscript, judging it for publication by the Princeton University Press, rated the work as "the most important book on 20th century Germany written in the past 15 years...
...Harvard's women fencers had a much easier time with St. Mary's, Notre Dame's sister school, later in the afternoon. The Crimson cruised to a 7-2 victory on the strength of Gulia Ciechetti's three victories...