Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam's will-o'-the-wisp war is mobility. As guerrillas, the Viet Cong have naturally used it to the best advantage so far, slipping stealthily through swamps and jungles to attack, then disappear. But thanks to the growing armada of troop-carrying transports and helicopters in Viet Nam, the U.S. has developed its own brand of mobility. Last week, despite shifting veils of monsoon rain and cloud, that mobility was being used to good effect. Siege & Spider Holes. First demonstration came in the battle for Route 19, an affair that at first glance seemed doomed...
...played a vital role in developing well-rounded meals for the Gemini astronauts in their four-day orbital mission To get 16 meals down to a total weight of less than five pounds, Swift scientists had to freeze, dehydrate, press and seal the food until it was just a wisp of its former self. Just how far out do you have to get to be progressive...
Furrowed Brow. Of all the newcomers, Peanuts, which arrived on the comics page 15 years ago, is by far the most appealing. And Charlie Brown, the principal Peanut, is a likely candidate for most popular kid in the country. With the merest wisp of hair and a perpetually furrowed brow, Charlie gazes blankly on a world that is far too ferocious for him. Each strip is usually a lesson, complete in itself, on the futility of good intentions. "Believe in me," Charlie cries, but no one pays any attention. When he calls to apologize for being late to a party...
Died. Willie ("The Wisp") Galimore, 29, star halfback of the Chicago Bears pro football team, who averaged 4.45 yards per carry over six seasons and in 1957 tied a Bears record of four touchdowns in a single game; in an auto accident that also killed Bears End John Farrington, 28, when their Volkswagen flipped as they raced to beat an eleven o'clock curfew at training camp; in Rensselaer...
...judges agreed with the audience and awarded the $3,000 first prize to the tearful Moscow Conservatory student, while Belgium's Queen Elisabeth herself, an 87-year-old wisp of a woman regally draped in white, excitedly waved her approval from the royal box. Just 18, Moguilevsky, whose parents teach piano at the conservatory at Odessa, displayed a dazzling technique deftly tempered with a controlled maturity of approach. He is the youngest pianist to ever win the coveted Queen's crown. "Moguilevsky has everything," raved La Dernière Heure critic Pierre Modaert, "a blessed musical nature . . . great...