Word: swatting
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...During my elementary school years, I was a poor reader. A poor reader was not a motivated reader. Motivation in 1947, as I remember, came in the form of a swat. I am very pleased to learn that the condition of the poor reader has been recognized as something more than improper motivation...
...Guam-based B-52s, falling in sticks neatly bracketed to decapitate a small mountain. When the big bombers, converted from carrying nuclear weapons, first began making the 5,200-mile round trip from Guam to Viet Nam, critics snorted that it was overkill run riot, using elephants to swat mosquitoes. But the point was to hit the V.C. without warning (the B-52s fly so high that they are seldom seen or heard by their targets) in the heart of their eleven major strongholds, keep them edgy and off balance. The SAC planes have hit such strongholds as the Iron...
...painfully clear: any operation plan more than eight hours in the making is bound to be found out by the Viet Cong. Just as the French learned during their long, losing Indo-China campaign, the South Vietnamese and their U.S. advisers were discovering that you can't swat a fly with a sledgehammer-particularly if it takes too long to lift the hammer...
Premier Nguyen Khanh is like a kid's bell-bottom punch toy. No sooner is he knocked flat than he's up and grinning, ready for another foul blow. Last week the swat of a rebellious fist seemed to knock Khanh cockeyed, but within moments he was back on his feet-ready to be knocked down again...
...ambitions of her husband. In the tradition of Southern plantation patriarchies, Lyndon Johnson is head of the family-period. And as he himself admits, "I'm not the easiest man to live with." He strongly influences her tastes -in clothes, coiffure and makeup. He has been known to swat Lady Bird so hard on the behind that her feet nearly leave the floor. Sometimes, when after-dinner drinks have flowed for a while, he launches into a few bawdy stories, fires out cuss words like buckshot. But Lady Bird sits by serenely, smiling faintly or gazing out a window...