Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts, government troops are still out hunting the enemy. In the Delta, the war "is still largely a South Vietnamese one, with three ARVN divisions working alongside one U.S. division. In the scrub jungles around Saigon, South Vietnamese units participate in every major U.S. search-and-destroy mission; several thousand ARVN men joined in Operation Junction City last February. Even in the war along the DMZ, South Vietnamese rangers went in with the U.S. Marines in the invasion of the zone's southern half in May and accounted for over 300 enemy dead...
...denaro, awaaay! Suddenly every actor in Italy was sitting short in the saddle and mowing down the bad guys with twelve shots from his six-shooter. Since Leone began the whole shebang-bang, Italian directors have cranked out 180 eastern westerns. Some of them, such as For a Thousand Dollars a Day and For Still More Dollars, are blatant copies. Most are long on gore but short on lore. One popular horse opera is set in Minnesota, a notorious badland just across the border from Mexico...
Lethal Leak. Any vacuum tube operating at several thousand volts or more produces detectable X rays. Boiling off the incandescent cathode of the tube, electrons are attracted and accelerated by the high positive voltage on the tube's anode and smash into it at great speed. Struck by the electrons, the atoms of the metallic anode vibrate violently and emit energy in the form of X rays, which can burn the skin, injure the eyes and cause genetic damage...
...thousand ecstatic fans met the team at Logan Airport. Yastrzemski, the team's unofficial spokesman, announced, "Nothing can stop us now." Like the hero of Synge's "Playboy of the Western World," the Red Sox seem to have become so convinced by their own boasts that they are living up to them...
...Twenty thousand different luxury items-including 2,400 kinds of wallets -have helped push Mark Cross's sales to an annual rate of $3,000,000. Profits rose 25% in both 1965 and 1966. In the first six months of 1967, the Fifth Avenue shop remained well ahead of other retailers, increasing earnings 20% over last year. George Wasserberger, 38, one of four U.S. entrepreneurs who took over 122-year-old Mark Cross in 1962, attributes its success to uncompromising quality. "We have never sacrificed lasting fashion for fad," he says. His philosophy is expressed in a recent Mark...