Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tasteless nonsense," "blatant rubbish," "a great big bore," howled the London critics. Worse yet, many viewers got the feeling that perhaps fame had at last gone to the Beatles' heads. Concluded the Daily Express: "The whole boring saga confirmed a long-held suspicion that the Beatles are four rather pleasant young men who have made so much money that they can apparently afford to be contemptuous of the public." In reply, Paul could only say: "Aren't we entitled to have a flop? Was the film really so bad compared with the rest of the Christmas...
Lingering Suspicion. A more likely explanation of the enemy's aggressiveness is that he continues to hope to capture a village or town to convince the South Vietnamese-and the U.S. public-of his strength. The Communists have never hesitated to sacrifice lives in hope of inflicting casualties that might spark war protests or win a psychological victory...
There is, of .course, the lingering suspicion and secret hope that Ho's regime simply does not know how poorly it is doing. Lacking the ability of their U.S. counterparts to tour the battlefield regularly by helicopter, North Vietnamese commanders are at the mercy of reports from the field. How fanciful those reports can be was illustrated by the captured enemy summary on the battle of Loc Ninh. Instead of admitting disaster, the Communist commander reported that his forces destroyed "a U.S. armored battalion, a U.S. rifle battalion, a U.S. artillery battalion and one puppet (South Vietnamese) regiment...
...holder in champagne-tanned platypus pouch. Avoiding today's exhaustive and exhausting travel writing, this volume combines 18th century illustrations with prose from the past. The travelers' tales date from the period when English was at its best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English," says William Hazlitt. On the other hand, in his splendidly evocative preface, the very contemporary prose stylist Anthony Burgess asserts: "In the most enlightened phases of Northern history...
...Corporation helped COBI draw up a physical plan for improving the neighborhood (a plan which was eventually incorporated into Cambridge's successful model cities application). But COBI still looked on the Corporation with more than a measure of suspicion...