Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harriman to Southeast Asia to reassure Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat and South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. This week he will dispatch Lyndon Johnson to Saigon to see "what further steps could most usefully be taken" to bolster South Viet Nam against the Communist tide...
...calamitous day early in 1953, a howling northwester teamed with a wild spring tide. The resulting floods were the most disastrous to afflict The Netherlands in five centuries. Hardest hit were 1,300 square miles of Rhine and Meuse delta lands in The Netherlands' southwest, where tidal surges roared up estuaries and rivers, shattered 67 dikes, drowned 1,800 people and engulfed 375,000 acres of farmlands. In the aftermath, the public alarm was profound, and engineers swiftly blueprinted a $650 million plan to safeguard the delta forevermore by damming up four of the region's principal...
What turned the tide was De Gaulle's unflinching courage and his overwhelming support in Metropolitan France. The mutineers had counted on De Gaulle's reluctance to order French soldiers to fire on French soldiers, but the old man did not hesitate, sternly told the loyal armed forces that their mission consisted "in stopping the insurrection, then in breaking it, finally in liquidating it by all necessary means, including the use of arms...
...primary, Mitchell upset shrewd, tough Walter H. Jones, Republican leader of the state senate and the favorite of a fusty state Republican organization that has all but wrecked the once-powerful G.O.P. in New Jersey. In the last seven years, Jersey Republicans have watched haplessly while the rising Democratic tide elected Harrison ("Pete") Williams to the U.S. Senate in 1958, won control of the state assembly, put Robert Meyner in the Governor's mansion for two terms (the state constitution forbids him to run for a third), and gave New Jersey to John Kennedy last November...
Back to the Bay. But for all the messages about fish rising and rainbows flashing, the expected mass uprising failed to take place, and the tide of rebellion ran out. The airstrip at Jagüey Grande was seized, but when the first rebel B-26 came in to land, it hit unexpected ridges of sand that had drifted across the runway, and crashed. Paratroopers, dropped inland, were wiped out-few prisoners were taken. The invaders from the beach never quite reached Jagüey Grande. Obviously forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed...