Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word of Britain's Bernard Levin, columnist for the Daily Mail [March 1]. My heart goes out with gratitude to those American families whose sons are holding back the Red tide in Southeast Asia-and with shame for the paltry attitude taken by many in Britain and the Western world who have been only too glad to accept American assistance in their own hour of need...
From the amalgam of Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and hardbitten white frontiersmen who settled it, Oklahoma somehow evolved as a state that was not distinctively Western, Southern or Eastern but marked by a conglomerate sectionalism all its own. Today its cultural patterns are Eastern, its outdoor way of life Western, and its political style distinctly Southern...
...Giap's forces in Viet Nam's two northernmost provinces to at least 60,000 men. With the allies drawn into defensive positions around I Corps cities and military enclaves, the NVA are now moving openly across the DMZ and down the broad coastal plain. In the Western part of I Corps and III Corps, they are even boldly paving and bulldozing roads to speed their convoys. Tank treads have been found for the first time in eastern I Corps...
...Saigon Capital Zone South Viet Nam's capital now wears the air of "nervous normalcy" to which more isolated province capitals have grown accustomed. Most businesses have reopened, but stocks are low. The western one-third of the Chinese quarter of Cholon is still insecure at night, the work of several hundred Viet Cong who are still holed up around the race track. Saigon lost, it is now estimated, 6,300 civilians during the fighting; another 11,000 were wounded...
...East tournament, Kentucky is a slight favorite. Houston and U.C.L.A., the top two teams in the country, are heavily favored to win the Mid-West and Western regional and repeat their January clash in the National semi-finals...