Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed to get-in 1954: partition of the country near the 16th parallel instead of the 17th. The U.S. is likely to call for a return to the conditions set forth, and frequently violated, at Geneva in 1954, with emphasis on international guarantees to protect the South from a swift Communist takeover...
Only eight miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, Dong Ha is the eastern anchor of the entire allied defense line facing North Viet Nam. Across the DMZ, in a swift three-day thrust, Hanoi sent its crack 320th Division to audaciously launch its first division-sized attack of the war. The Communist troops took up positions on the Cua Viet River two miles from Dong Ha, ambushed a U.S. Navy supply ship, and waited for the Marines to respond. They did at once, pouring in five companies to engage the North Vietnamese in the village...
...Knack debuted at Adams House last night, its fragile tale of young love and seduction unfolding as gracefully as a walrus with a toothache. This play surely needs strong swift pacing to make it work, and that's not what it had last night...
Along the so-called "high energy" beaches, where the water is turbulent and the currents swift, the offshore sand level can rise and fall as much as 4 ft. in half a day. Most beaches are subject to extremely heavy erosion during winter storms, then are rebuilt by sand-bearing currents during the summer. But, says Joseph Caldwell, head of the Beach Erosion Board of the Army Corps of Engineers, "the beaches generally wash out more each winter than they get built back each summer...
...Swift Realignment. More conservative now than when it approved a 1966 open-housing bill that was afterwards killed in the Senate, the House might have doomed this year's measure. Some 60 G.O.P. liberals supported the bill but were chary of bucking House Republican Leader Gerald Ford's opposition...