Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surely Quit First. One reason may be that Nixon's news did not fall in a vacuum. The sensitive Nationalists have hung on each step that the President has made easing trade and travel with Peking. But his giant stride has called into question Taiwan's U.N. status, and touched off intensive political and diplomatic strategy sessions on the island...
...Times The phony memos jibed with Buckley's basic beliefs on Viet Nam: that the U.S. would have had to hit harder and faster to win, and that the nation would not stand a long war. He admitted that he had "proceeded in something of an ethical vacuum," adding, "The New York
...threes to conduct Cosa Nostra business?sometimes on Sunday morning when, they assumed, FBI agents would be in church. When these arrangements failed, the dons were left to communicate with one another from outdoor phone booths?a far cry from the grand council meetings in luxury hotels. The vacuum in leadership and logistical planning opened the way for the sole cagey survivor of the old days?Carlo Gambino, 68, head of the largest family...
...process, their energy is boosted to 200 million electron volts. Next, the protons are speeded through a 500-ft.-diameter doughnut-shaped device called a synchrotron booster, in which synchronized surges of power increase the energy of the protons to 8 billion electron volts. Then, in the vacuum tube of the big ring, the protons are accelerated by similarly synchronized pulses of such high energy that when they smash into the target areas, they will be traveling at 99.999% of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second...
Most threatening, perhaps, is the increasing level of enemy activity in the northern part, of South Viet Nam, the one part of the country where the rainy season has just ended. Taking advantage of the partial vacuum created by the departure of the U.S. Marines, the North Vietnamese are creeping back into Quang Tri province, just below the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). Their repair of long unused road and river infiltration routes directly through the DMZ bodes ill for northern I Corps, always a vulnerable area and the scene of the war's bloodiest battles. Already Vietnamese have begun fleeing...