Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flop. The objective was a sprawl of scrub-grown hills known as "the Crow's Foot," and the mounts were hulking, olive-drab helicopters. Not a single cavalryman carried a saber; instead they cradled automatic rifles in their arms. No plumed, defiant enemy fell to their swift assault, only 47 scrawny, half-naked guerrillas. Yet in its unromantic rendezvous with the Viet Cong last week, the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) was far more effective than anything recorded in the dancing dactyls of Tennyson...
Leap & Smash. Since the 18,000 men of the Air Cav arrived in Viet Nam just a year ago, they have killed more than 5,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops, and lost only 900 dead of their own. Their swift sorties into the Red-dominated central highlands have captured 1,200 other Communist troops, along with some 2,000 weapons. Chinese-manufactured machine guns line the walk leading to Air Cav Major General John Norton's headquarters located near An Khe, a proud display of hard-won enemy weaponry. Air Cav troopers, using the strategy of General...
...have been city dwellers for 50 centuries, but barely two centuries have sufficed to bring U.S. cities to a desperate crisis. With seven out of ten Americans now living in cities, the U.S. is the world's largest urban society. The growth of the cities has been so swift that it has spawned some of the nation's deepest and most pressing problems. Throughout the U.S., the big cities are scarred by slums, hobbled by inadequate mass transportation, starved for sufficient finances, torn by racial strife, half-choked by polluted air. The nation's urban population...
Uncovered 18 months ago, Rabinovich escaped arrest by traveling from city to city and staying in furnished rooms until "Soviet justice caught up with him." His punishment, however, was swift; at least two of his eight accomplices went to forced-labor camps, but after a one-hour trial, Rabinovich was sentenced to be shot...
...Happened Here. The German conquest of Britain was bloody but swift. By the end of 1941 the entire island was occupied, and by 1943 the nation had been transformed into a corporate state. British industry was retooled to supply the Wehrmacht, British "volunteers" were fighting on the Russian front. Faced with a Reich that seemed likely indeed to last a thousand years, the country wavered and wondered if it might not be wiser to join the enemy it could not beat...