Word: tans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been told my tan is too dark, my hair is too light ... I wonder if people tell Lassie he's panting too much...
...Dunster House, Cornelia L. Griggs ’05, Zachary D. Liscow ’05, Aaron M. Mihaly ’05, Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, Eli S. Rosenbaum ’05, Vaughn Y.H. Tan ’05, and Elisabeth S. Theodore...
...Saigon to try to bring out Nga's parents, five sisters and her brother. We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed help getting on an evacuation flight. On April 29, I boarded an Air Vietnam 707 in Bangkok bound for Saigon. But Tan Son Nhut airport had fallen overnight, and after circling over the Mekong Delta, the flight was diverted to Hong Kong. For me, Vietnam would have to wait. For Nga's family, it was six dreary years of privation before they were allowed to leave...
...Twenty-five years passed before I made it back to Vietnam. In 2000, I finally landed at Tan Son Nhut and discovered there was nothing difficult about returning after all. Vietnam and its people had been transformed. The outward scars of war?checkpoints, gun emplacements, soldiers?had disappeared, and the mind-set of war had melted away...
...other things, versions of their own war history, the Vietnamese are looking to the future. They have even settled their differences with the Americans, who are now viewed as benign cash-spending tourists or customers for the endless stream of sneakers and clothing churned out in factories nestled around Tan Son Nhut. It's easy to be magnanimous when you'd won the war and business is ticking over nicely...