Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost certainly not. Already 70% of America's population lives on 1.3% of its land. A tide of unskilled rural migrants floods the crowded ghettos, choking the cities' power to provide jobs, housing, education, transportation, police protection, or even breathable air. Another 100 million souls will join the population by the year 2000, leading the Administration to see an impending social holocaust so dire that, as Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman put it, it will make "last summer a pink tea party compared with what's ahead...
...main-force units wherever they could be found, engage them in battle and then whirl back to the landing pads of the Air Cav "golf course"at An Khe in the Central Highlands to await the next alarm. Brilliantly executed, the assignment helped to turn the tide against the Communists. The Air Cav carried out 53 major leap-and-strike operations in 52 weeks ranging from the la Drang Valley near Cambodia to the coastal plains of the South China Sea, killing 5,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers and capturing another...
...being conducted over selected cities. He has received only four letters in favor of sonic booms--one from a man who wrote that the loud noise "made him proud to be an American." League members are urged to write their Congressmen and local newspapers, and Shurcliff feels that "the tide will run more strongly in our favor." The problem is that the longer it takes for the tide to turn, the smaller the chances are that this particular tide will turn...
aims in Viet Nam, impatience with the pace of the war and, increasingly, an unmistakable if still inchoate tide of opposition to the entire U.S. involvement in that costly, ugly, not so far-off conflict. The pervasive sense of frustration over the war has been nourished, through a summer of smoke and savagery in America's cities, by the apprehension that the U.S. is faced simultaneously with a frightening and largely unforeseen trauma in its own national life...
East European marketing people still have a relatively easy task. "They don't have to bother with motivation of buying Surf, Duz or Tide," commented a U.S. marketing expert in Vienna. In most cases, the consumer buys a product because that is all there...