Word: thins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very same instant, was not feeling the way I had imagined him: The subject was not absolutely calm. To his own excitement was added the tense quivering grip of the Marshal--the sense of breathing mountain air had hardly abated: his lungs seemed to take in oxygen with a thin edge, his throat burned...
...countries-plus most of a Marine division and six Army brigades dispersed from Alaska to the Canal Zone. Many of the men now en route to Viet Nam have been there before, and some have not even enjoyed the usual two-year respite between combat tours. To prevent the thin green line from getting thinner still, the Administration may well have to put major Reserve ground components on active-duty status for the first time since the Berlin crisis of 1961. These forces would not necessarily be sent to Viet Nam, but would serve as a ready back...
...would be most offended by his coddling of the sanitationmen's union. Richard Nixon, campaigning in New Hampshire, drew fervent crowd response by siding with Lindsay. "Breaking the law of the state," Nixon declared, "cannot and must not be rewarded." Ronald Reagan observed that Rockefeller was "treading on thin ice." Even George Romney, the beneficiary of Rockefeller's political largess, allowed that "where there is a breakdown of public service, I would order in the National Guard...
...That picture is lodged in people's memories. Taken during the recent Communist assault on Viet Nam's cities, it showed Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 37, chief of South Viet Nam's 75,000-man national police force cold-bloodedly executing a guerrilla suspect-a thin, frightened, but stubbornlooking man in plaid shirt and pants who had been seized by soldiers in a Saigon street. In no mood to ask questions, the spindly general whipped out his snub-nosed .38 revolver and wordlessly blew the suspect's brains out. "Many Americans have died recently," Loan...
Princeton is 10-0 on the season, and the Tigers are probably looking past Harvard to the climactic Yale meet next Saturday. But even overconfident, Princeton will probably be too much for Harvard's thin forces...