Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concerning this weekend, Barnaby said that "the team is really going to be up for these. I think we have a good shot to take both of them, but they'll be right down to the wire...
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER accounts of the Saigon government's collapse last week seemed fairer and more compassionate--if only because they conveyed some of the event's magnitude and ambiguities--than there was reason to expect. Outside of big cities, headlines like "Red Blitz Continues" topped wire service copy. But even the wire services tried for impartiality. Nestled between headlines about orphans and columns of political jostling over whether or not the Indochina war was a "mistake," and if so by whom, lay solid chunks of information about the war's latest effects on the people of Indochina...
...intervening years have served to create a perhaps inevitable barrier between Thieu and the people he leads. These days, he rarely uses the Presidential Palace on Cong Ly Boulevard, which is barricaded from the rest of Saigon by sentry boxes, steel barriers and tangles of barbed wire. He moves behind a curtain of almost total secrecy, constantly switching locations between a series of private addresses within and outside the city. Since the attack on Ban Me Thuot on March 10, he has not appeared in public or even been photographed...
...events than were the faculty and administrators themselves. Some faculty wives still refuse to read or subscribe to the Crimson, and are still somewhat wary of students. In my mother's case, the attitude was understandable. She was not favorably impressed by my father's fear that someone might wire his car with a bomb, and she often worried that he might have a heart attack or something...
Cordero can be so intent in the saddle that he does not know whether he has won or lost a race. "You ride so hard," he says, "you don't realize you pass the wire." Even after the race has been run Angel does not let up. "What a gutsy guy!" says Trainer John Parisella. "He's the best salesman at the track. When he comes in second or third, he makes you feel the horse is a shoo-in the next time...