Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writing about the Saigon battle in his memoirs, Dung revealed that the opening attack on the highlands town of Ban Me Thuot was originally intended as no more than a probing operation. But the South Vietnamese army proved so weak that the test turned into a full-scale assault, which finally resulted in Saigon's fall...
...HARVARD examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of details. People approaching the examination question have three choices: 1) flunking out, 2) doing the work, or 3) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, the second takes too long...
...Surely, someone is kidding me. This must be the annex to Cambridge High and Latin. It is bad enough that this building exists. It is worse that I am inside it. It is appalling that I am here to take something called a swimming test. (Note: in 1969, freshman had to take their swimming tests sans bathing suits, adding to the dignity of the experience.) No one ever talks about this place. Not even the basketball coaches. Particularly the basketball coaches...
...plan is to enter selected Democratic primaries, including some early contests in the East, to test Carter's vulnerability. But Brown's main concern is Ted Kennedy, who he fears could reap the benefit of Brown's own early challenge to Carter. The worry is well founded. The latest Mervin Field poll shows that among California Democrats, 44% favor Kennedy as their party's nominee. Carter trails badly with 22%; Brown comes in last with...
...himself) ended his career much the same way he started it, standing drunk in front of his large cult of admirers at a gig; they were endlessly patient. Each time he appeared on stage. Morrison tried some bizarre theatrics--which became more and more obscene as he aged--to test the limits of his messianic image--just how much could his lovers love him? And here, in 1970, he was at the height of his stagestar image--and of his alcoholism--broken down in the middle of a song, kind of crumpled and fat, and suddenly the chameleon galleries were...