Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city of Boston itself will be the exhibit, according to a statement released by the OBB. The office will attempt to encourage interest in the city through five major departments. One of these departments will create new trails similar to the existing Freedom Trail, such as a Medical Trail and a Literary Trail...
...dishonor of America's imperialism, the tentative quality of the so-called peace in Indochina, the misery of America's wounded, widowed, and orphaned, cutbacks in support programs for Vietnam veterans, unjustified legal barriers against the return of those who would not assist in U.S. genocide, and, ultimately, the trail of death and of indiscriminate destruction which we have blazed--and still carve--out of Southeast Asia today...
...hottest there last week. Thailand-based B-52 bombers, relieved of their duties in Viet Nam, concentrated their power on Communist forces in Laos. The strikes were aimed at suspected concentrations of North Vietnamese troops. For their part, the North Vietnamese pulled troops off the Ho Chi Minh Trail and arranged them in offensive positions against the Royal Laotian Army. The most serious threat was to the junction of Thakhek, which was encircled by nine battalions of Communist troops...
...been for the duration of the war. Vietnamese soldiers have trudged down the Ho Chi Minh trail, dodging American bombs, subsisting on handfuls of salt, and then gone into battle against an enemy possessing all the accoutrements of modern warfare. Hundreds of thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands have replaced them. The Vietnamese have successfully coped with total war on the home front. They have evacuated their cities. They have rebuilt bombed out railroads and dikes, by hand, over and over again...
...material, and his approach to it, would appear almost certain to capture that adjective he seems most to be struggling for: "refreshing." Almost everyone who has ever watched American television has wished that just once a character would stutter, stammer, deliver an inappropriate line, allow a sentence to trail off unconvincingly, show a real emotion, be, for once, human. The Louds do all these things, unconsciously, and Gilbert does provide a fascinating portrait of a sitcom family without their one-liners...