Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. While the wreckage of a twin-engined transport sizzles in mid-Sahara, Director Robert Aldrich coolly studies a crew of survivors headed by James Stewart in their attempt to escape on a wing and a prayer...
...want to wait for the return of the Communists have already been escorted out of the valley. The marines were soon off hunting anew, as helicopters poured thousands of leathernecks into Phuoc Valley in search of the Viet Cong 1st Regiment. Directly to the south, Operation White Wing, which so far has accounted for nearly 1,500 Communists killed, continued in smaller-scale, company-size operations by the 1st Air Cav. Though Double Eagle and White Wing failed to make contact with the four Communist regiments operating in Binh Dinh, the 1st Air Cav scored a notable coup last week...
...Left-Wing Boy Scout. In Rexroth's world, people call him "Duke," a term used in hobo jungles for the classy fellow in a sub-society of declassed men. "It's no great compliment," says Rexroth. "The most affected girl in a whorehouse is usually called 'Duchess...
...worlds of Chicago, Greenwich Village and the syndicalist meeting halls of Seattle, until he came at last to the big rock candy mountains of San Francisco. From the time he was an eagle scout in Toledo, Ohio-operating, he claims, from what must have been the only left-wing gangsterized troop in America-Rexroth's big German-American farm boy's face shone with the vocation of the radical outsider proud of belonging to people who have no belongings. Whether he was selling snake oil to farmers in the Southwest (his three-page sales pitch is a masterpiece...
...annual budget message, the city manager asked the Council to set priorities for approximately $52 million worth of capital improvements projected over the next five years. The City is already committed to the construction of a new hospital and a new wing for its library. In addition, the School Committee has begun planning for three new elementary schools. The cost of these five items will be more than $17 million, although the state and federal governments will pay a substantial part of the bill...