Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Are the French? These 150,000 men are tough and efficient soldiers. Their morale, considering the punishing climate and the terrain of jungle, mountain, swamp or flooded rice field, in a campaign against an enemy who consistently flees pitched battle, is surprisingly high...
...probing finger of Communist aggression aim its next jab? Western observers have long feared that one of the likeliest targets would be Russia's neighbor, Iran, a backward land perched precariously on the U.S.S.R.'s Middle-Eastern doorstep. Iran has been wallowing in an economic and political swamp for decades. A well-nigh endless series of footling governments has done little to help...
...fire department nor the snow removers have complained. In the back-ground sits a group of garage owners who will continue to wax and grow fat as long as the street parking ban remains. If the University wants to solve the parking problem, it should turn from its distant swamp across the river, from a lot which nobody will want. It should look to the streets...
...rugged hit & run fighting in forest and swamp terrain well suited for guerrilla tactics. By day the French control about half the countryside; and if they want to, they can penetrate where they will, though ambush takes its toll. At night, however, the French draw into their forts and garrisoned centers. Then Ho Chi Minh's men steal forth, terrorize peasants, collect taxes (two-fifths of a farmer's rice harvest), and run the countryside almost everywhere...
...determined bipartisan majority listened but was not impressed. When voting began, it doggedly beat down one McCarran proposal after another: by prearrangement, a Democrat would answer one amendment, a Republican the next. McCarran tried to cut the total number of admissible D.P.s, to swamp the D.P. quotas by making eligible 8,000,000 Germans expelled from Iron Curtain countries, to keep discriminatory requirements against Jews and Catholics, to ban all D.P. admissions when there are more than 4,000,000 U.S. unemployed or more than 2,000,000 families living doubled...