Word: troops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when George Washington's men were desperately hungry; they circulated counterfeit Continental currency to weaken the rebel economy, and they distributed handbills urging wavering patriots to switch to the British side. Some 50,000 actually took up arms and joined British regiments. In 1780, when Washington's troop roster numbered a mere 9,000, there were 8,000 Americans fighting in redcoat units...
...toughest slums, near the city's docks and up a narrow alley past teeming soup stalls, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Brenden of Minneapolis operate a center for teaching sewing and other skills to teen-age girls, a day nursery for children of working mothers, a Boy Scout troop among urchins. The Brendens, both Lutherans, arrived in Saigon last year under the auspices of Viet Nam Christian Service, a relief agency jointly sponsored by Lutheran World Relief, Church World Service, and Mennonites. The couple symbolizes the largely unsung efforts by U.S. churches to respond-as they have done...
...work of regular ministries in such diverse fields as press censorship, civil service and sports. He has trimmed the power of his junta associates by relieving Pattakos of command of the politically powerful armored forces training center near Athens and putting his own men in key positions as troop commanders and secret police officials...
Since President Johnson authorized 45,000 more servicemen for Viet Nam -to bring total troop strength there to 525,000 by next July-Congressmen have questioned whether the men can be supplied without jeopardizing U.S. commitments elsewhere or mobilizing the reserves. The answer, says the Pentagon, is that indeed they...
...said the Defense Secretary, U.S. fighter-bombers averaged 13,000 sorties a month over the North -75% of them directed against lines of communication and goods moving over them. "In addition, we have struck approximately 1,900 fixed targets in North Viet Nam, including 57 bridges, 50 major railyards, troop barracks, petroleum storage tanks and power plants...