Word: whinings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIGs were out in force last week not only around Phuc Yen but above Hanoi and Haiphong, which took some of the heaviest bombing of the war. For five straight days, the whine of jets over Hanoi was almost monotonous. U.S. planes struck at a torpedo-boat base, an army barracks, storage depots, power plants, and two bridges over which supply trains from China funnel into Hanoi. Foreign seamen aboard ships anchored off Haiphong sat on the bridges with their feet on the railing watching duels between planes and ack-ack batteries...
...flak jacket jiggling against his bare chest, he makes his way through the debris of cartridge boxes and C-ration cans. Deep, viscous red mud sucks at his boots and oozes up to his knees as he struggles down the slope. Suddenly, from high above, comes a familiar, chilling whine. "Incoming!" someone yells, and the leatherneck flattens himself in the mud. The artillery shell bursts 50 yards from him, gouging out a small crater through the slime. A breeze wafts away the cloud of smoke and detritus, the rifleman listens for a moment and then stands up. "Man!" he exclaims...
...avoid using his veto again if he can. Even so, approval of Britain's entry is rated no more than a 50-50 chance. No one recognizes this more than Wilson. "If we do not succeed-through the decisions of others, not of ourselves-we shall not whine about it," he said. "We ask no favors. Our negotiations will be based on what we can contribute...
...signalization' was, how necessary a part of our century." Ever since, he has been putting together odds and ends of old army tanks, trucks and planes to form cryptic beacons, panels of flashing green, violet and red aircraft-landing lights, needles that sing with an electronic Zorba whine...
While cycles whine, O baby, baby, braced...