Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bloomsbury literary set. Now he is old, a friend and pensioner of his middle-aged nephew, a wealthy New York gynecologist named Gruner. He is tall, dried, durable, with a floppy great hat. A fast and arrogant walker who can part a sea of taxis with a furled umbrella...
...American pilots now fly two-thirds of all combat missions in Viet Nam, but the U.S.-trained VNAF should be able to handle all preplanned missions by 1972. U.S. airmen, however, will still be needed in case of sudden enemy contacts and to serve as an aerial umbrella for South Viet Nam's cities. COMBAT SUPPORT TROOPS, including artillery and engineer, medical, and even armored personnel, will remain at a level of 20,000 after the withdrawals have been completed. ARVN artillerymen have shown themselves highly proficient with their American-supplied guns, and should be equal to all government...
...Greek temples of Paestum are surrounded by umbrella pines and artichoke fields, and until recently artichokes were the main preoccupation of Farmer Luigi Franco and his son Francesco. Not any more. Last July Francesco broke a plow on what turned out to be the limestone roof of an ancient Lucanian tomb. Such tombs, decorated with the crude paintings of the local tribesmen who made them, have been found before in southern Italy. But this one was different. When excavated by Archaeologist Mario Napoli, superintendent of antiquities for the district of Salerno, the walls of the tomb were found...
...based on the compassionate abandonment of the maxims of an isolationist fortress American. It is hard to repent if your policy is based on the scrutiny of historic experience and on the resolution not to permit the armed crossing of the Czechoslovakian or any other international frontier through acquiescence, umbrella in hand, in any Munich Pact, however disguised...