Word: tweet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tweet, Tweet. Unless the Communists sharply intensify the war, the U.S. strategy in coming months will be to press the fight at the borders and to find and destroy the main-force units inland. The tough First Air Cavalry and the 101st Division will become Westmoreland's mobile reserves, ready to meet major Communist moves anywhere in the country. The optimistic hope is that as inland areas become cleared and the remaining main-force units are pushed to the frontiers, the South Vietnamese will be capable of taking over and holding the territory against local guerrillas. Next year they...
...allegiance of the people of South Viet Nam, says a Pentagon general, "and as long as the guns boom in the distance, the war is still on for the people. I would like to get rid of the boom, boom." In its place, he wants to hear the tweet, tweet of a train engine. "That's a sound," he said, "that will say something to the people...
...Security Council vote behind him, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant hurried off to the Indian sub continent, where his homilies were greeted with outright scorn. After two days of fruitless meetings in Rawalpindi, a Pakistani official said: "Thant's visit is like a Boy Scout blowing his whistle, tweet, tweet, and telling us to be good. We have been good long enough." And for all its years of lip service to the U.N. and world peace, the Indian government was hardly more receptive to Thant's proposals...
...images taken from newsphotos. Last week at Castelli's, Rauschenberg unveiled his latest kick-electronic sculpture. Titled Oracle, it is a series of five disconnected wagons of carefully put together junk, which Rauschenberg thinks of as "a collage out of sound." The connecting links are auditory; four pieces tweet and woof, continuously tuning up and down the AM dial, through their own radio speakers. There is a fifth go-go cart with a control unit for the $6,000 worth of electronic equipment...
...their glamour and hustle, short lines will go on being short. Their less than 2% share of total rail revenues last year was a tiny tweet amid the mighty roar of the main lines. Mergers, of course, still take place. The Lehigh & Susquehanna disappeared last year into the Reading, and the Mohoning & Shenango into the New York Central. But one thing is certain: in 1964, the nation's short lines are too various, too scattered-and too content with their tiny place in the sun-for another Pennsy or Central ever to emerge from them...