Word: summer
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Martin was U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam from the summer of 1973 until Saigon's capture by Communist troops in April 1975. He was later criticized, most recently by former CIA Officer Frank Snepp in his book Decent Interval, for mishandling the evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese supporters from Saigon. Soon after Martin returned to Washington, he retired...
...rock'n roll became an American institution, before it splintered into hard rock, bubble gum rock, acid rock, punk rock, jazz-rock, folk-rock, and that most castrated form of rock, if it can be called rock at all--disco. By the time I got on the bus this summer there was really little left of the original rock'n roll. When Elvis first sang he was a rebel; when the Bay City Rollers "rock 'n roll" now they're barely even cute--bubble gum is cloying. Elvis was outrageous in the '50s because he never held back, but outrageousness...
...meal tax was originally imposed as an 8 per cent tax on restaurant meals including meals served at colleges. In the summer of '77 the legislature voted to reduce the tax to 6 per cent...
Martha C. Lyman, director of financial aid, said recently that her office sent a notice this summer to students with their financial aid award letters warning them that they many face a reduction in their aid awards to reflect the lower board fees...
EARLY ONE MORNING in mid-August, 400 Philadelphia policemen milled outside a ramshackle Victorian house five blocks from the University of Pennsylvania campus, awaiting orders from their superiors. The policemen knew roughly what task was expected of them before the cool morning became a sweltering summer day; they were to rout about 20 members of an organization formed by former college professors, drunks, and poets from their headquarters-home, located in an area of the city known for its semiradical population largely composed of students and working-class blacks. The police looked forward to this confrontation with this hard...