Word: thang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...where once the programs were fragmented under provincial control, the activities of all the "revolutionaries" today are coordinated from Saigon under able, energetic General Nguyen Due Thang, the Minister of Revolutionary Development, with the aid and advice of the U.S. For 1966, Saigon has allotted Thang nearly $9,000,000, and the U.S., through AID, plans to spend some $400 million. The year's tangible targets: securing 987 hamlets, building 2,500 classrooms, resettling 41,000 families, building 150 bridges and 600 miles of road, and adding an additional 14% of South Viet Nam's population...
...from the U.S. 7th Fleet aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, lying off South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. Prime target for the planes high-speed, still-photo lenses was Route 7, a ribbon of dirt snaking out of Communist North Viet Nam into Laos. Known by Laotians as Thang Nay, or the Big Road, Route 7 has long been used by North Viet Nam's Reds to truck men and guns to the Pathet Lao (up to 400 vehicles a day), in open violation of Laos' neutrality accords. To get closeups of the latest influx, the supersonic...
This hayere show they's a-puttin' on at Kirkland Hayuse roun' about now has hits annoyin' aspects, ya know? Lak Ah means for instance thuh hull damn thang is did in this hayere gawddam diuhlect, which at times gits purty sickenin'. And thuh way them guys clomp aroun' back uh thuh stage and forgit tuh turn thuh lights on an' off ain't inny too plasin' neither. Offhand, Ah cain't thank uv no wuss place to put on uh play than thet thar Kirkland Hayuse Joonyer Cummin Room. Sum uv thuh actin' ain't all thet all-fired...
...even give scholarships to talented twirlers. And after that it is practice, practice, practice. The girls do not seem to mind all the grueling sacrifice that fame demands. It teaches them poise, keeps their figures neat, and, testifies one Georgia nymphette in a Dixie Cup drawl: "Ah thank the thang teaches us to thank...