Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis...
...Everett Dirksen took exception to this, enlivened the debate briefly by ridiculing Morse. "With a decent approach and with no Senator feeling that all the wisdom reposes in him alone, we can get out of here on schedule," said Dirksen. Otherwise, he predicted, Senators will sit around their Christmas tree Dec. 25 "in their red flannel pajamas," watching their grandchildren, and suddenly remember that "we didn't finish foreign aid." Morse led a move to try to send the whole bill back to the committee with instructions to completely reorganize the aid program; the move failed...
...noon, Diem prepared to take his lunch, and so did the rest of Saigon. Shutters fell over store windows and the lovely tree-lined boulevards were suddenly choked with hordes of motor bikes, pedicabs, and buzzing little Renault taxis hauling people home for two hours of escape from the stupefying midday heat...
...South Viet Nam's crack "Red Lightning" division moved out against a battalion of 300 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the village of Loc Ninh, deep in the Mekong Delta. Slogging through flooded paddyfields and reed swamps, rifles held high, the government soldiers advanced toward the tree line that marked the Viet Cong position. A pasting by napalm, rockets, bombs and machine-gun fire from T-28 fighter-bombers had failed to budge the guerrillas from their camouflaged foxholes. Guns cocked, the ragged Communists calmly held their fire until the first assault wave had advanced to within...
With no place to take cover, the attackers dropped like targets in a shooting gallery. One squad, splashing forward in desperation, nearly reached the tree line only to be wiped out to the last man. The South Vietnamese commander tried to rush up reinforcements, but soupy weather had closed in and helicopters could no longer get through. As night fell, many of the wounded, who could not be evacuated, died helplessly in the mud. The final government toll was 42 dead and 85 wounded, plus 13 American advisers wounded. Under cover of darkness, the Viet Cong abandoned Loc Ninh...