Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the Tet offensive began at the beginning of the lunar New Year, some U.S. officers in Saigon reckoned the losses to be closer to one-third of that figure. That would leave North Viet Nam's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap with considerable muscle for a new wave of attacks on the cities. U.S. casualties were a fraction of the Communist losses, but they were the war's heaviest nonetheless, totaling more than 1,350 dead and 6,800 wounded since the beginning of the Tet strikes...
...North Vietnamese out of the ancient Citadel. At Khe Sanh, the pressure mounted on the waiting U.S. Marines, who underwent one of the most concentrated barrages of the war-1,307 rounds of shells in one five-hour stretch. Having promised to level Saigon in a "second wave" of attacks on South Viet Nam's cities, the Communists kept up a steady drumfire of rockets and mortars on the capital. And the U.S. command announced that for the week ending Feb. 17, a record number of 543 Americans died in combat, bringing to 2,200 the number...
...ticket-seller is a kindly old lady who looks up from a Screen Romances to demand proof-of-age. If you hand her a hastily marked-over expired driver's license, and act incredulous when she questions it, she will take your two dollars and wave...
...enemy buildup there was only a diversion for the urban offensive further south or for a bypass thrust at Quang Tri or Danang. There was also a dawning realization that, for all President Johnson's warning against another Dienbienphu, Khe Sanh could be overrun by overwhelming human-wave attacks. A top U.S. general in Saigon reckoned that the base could be taken by 25,000 men in concerted assaults, "but a hell of a lot of them would stay on the wire...
...While reviewing some long-forgotten notes, Green recently discovered that in 1910 Astronomer R. W. Wood had taken telescopic shots of the moon through a filter that absorbed light with a wave length of 3,100 angstroms.When the pictures were developed, they showed black spots on the lunar surface. Because the light reflected from sulphur is absorbed at 3,100 angstroms, Wood reasoned, the black spots on the moon must be sulphur...