Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese officials. Fluent in French and Chinese, he has touted Hanoi's line in Vienna, Stockholm and Rangoon, as well as Peking, Moscow and other Communist capitals, where he has generally appeared in the guise of a journalistic commissar. The softspoken, stumpy Thuy, whose name means spring water, emulates stay-at-home apparatchiki in one respect: his private life is shadowed in secrecy. Thuy is known to have married and fathered children, but his family has been kept as hidden from foreign eyes as the bargaining points he carries to Paris inside his head...
...contemporary men," says Arizona's Der Alte. "Time makes specialists of us all. In building a house, there is a moment for the foundation, a moment for the walls, a moment for the roof." He reasons that he has supervised the construction of Arizona's basic road, water and power facilities through federal projects. Thus the state can do without the seniority that made him president pro tempore of the Senate, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and one of the upper chamber's most influential...
...side, the biggest initial problems were logistical, the number of troops available and the lack of U.S. troops' experience in a counterinsurgency environment. To build a logistical base to support over half a million men has been a herculean task. We now have six instead of one deep-water ports, eight instead of three jet-capable airfields. Air supply has been developed until I am sure it is the most efficient in history. As far as troop strength is concerned, we had to use fire-brigade tactics until late 1966, when we were strong enough to begin to apply...
...windows and then go organize a strike. The feeling is that if we get busted, then there will be something to organize a strike about. The man chairing the discussion is standing on a small wooden table and I am very concerned lest he break it. We collect water in wastebaskets in case of tear gas. Some of it gets spilled and I spend my time trying to wipe it up. I don't want to leave somebody else's office all messy...
...19th is a big rolling par four, a tough driving hole, with water off the tee and on the right, and a double-tiered green. Like most of the other holes on the Yale course, it was in remarkably poor condition...