Word: webs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brings to mind Aesop's fable about the lion and the mosquito. The analogy would be complete if the might of the U.S. lion should prove less effective than the peskiness of Ho Chi Minh, the mosquito. Aesop's victorious mosquito, however, was soon trapped by the web of the spider. And isn't Red China's web all primed...
...back to a favorite mode of transportation: elusive sampans. The riot of rain-fed foliage in the jungles and swamps provides better concealment for the Red guerrillas, while battle-weary government troops are compelled to slog through waist-deep mud. To both sides the monsoon brings misery: boots and web belts rot, weapons rust even under oilcloth, leeches drop from wet branches, and a thin green slime covers everything...
...Crimson hopes to end its season with a victory tonight, Sedlacek will have to elude Broadfoot's defensive web. It isn't enough if only Sedlacek has a hot night. McClung, Barry Williams, and Gene Dressler will have to share some of the offensive burden, or Harvard is going to lose. That's the lesson the Crimson quintet has been learning all season...
Alternately driven and dreaming, irresponsible and ingratiating, mean-spirited and maudlin, Audubon was inevitably misunderstood by contemporaries and, maintains Biographer Alice Ford, "errantly idealized" by her dozen-odd predecessors. As an antidote, Author Ford has presented, in rather stilted fashion, back-to-back facts that usefully clear away the web of fabrication that the Audubon family did their best to spin...
With their spider's web...