Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loyalists supplied the redcoats with food when George Washington's men were desperately hungry; they circulated counterfeit Continental currency to weaken the rebel economy, and they distributed handbills urging wavering patriots to switch to the British side. Some 50,000 actually took up arms and joined British regiments. In 1780, when Washington's troop roster numbered a mere 9,000, there were 8,000 Americans fighting in redcoat units...
Before Saturday's game at Amherst, Harvard soccer coach Bruce Munro was worried abouth his halfbacks. Sophomore Richie Hardy hadn't come to practice all week because of injuries, Hilary Worthen was hurt, and captain Joe Gould would probably have to switch from his usual right half slot to the unfamiliar left-hand side of the field...
...switch in roles is only part of a gradual change in the use of U.S. Army units throughout Viet Nam. The U.S. 199th Brigade has been circling Saigon since December in an exclusively security operation named "Fairfax," which is designed to keep the Viet Cong from building up strength too near the capital. The brigade's search partners are not police but Vietnamese Rangers, working in completely integrated "supercompanies" made up of one U.S. and one Vietnamese com pany. The U.S. 9th Division is also involved in intermediate warfare, working closely with the ARVN's 25th Division...
American is also installing Astrolog maintenance recorders, which the crew can switch on to take complete readings on engine-performance facts from rotor speed to fuel flow at any time during the flight. At the end of each flying day, the taped engine data will be sent over telephone wires to American's maintenance center in Tulsa, Okla...
Following the trend in liner operation-to make up for transatlantic trade lost to jets by offering leisure voyages -the ship will cross the North Atlantic in warm weather, switch to southern waters for winter cruising. From keel up, it is designed to do either in such a way as to return a profit. Which, for all their traditions, is something the Queens did not always...