Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exact aims and its own real fear that Manchuria would be invaded. In the present conflict, he said, the U.S. has clearly stated that "it is not our objective to crush or destroy North Viet Nam" and that it is not seeking an unconditional surrender-"an Appomattox, a Yorktown, a ceremony on the battleship Missouri...
...over!" cried Lord North, the British Prime Minister, when he heard of the U.S. victory at Yorktown. He was wrong. It was all over; but the peacemaking-which went on for almost two years before it concluded in the fateful Peace of Paris tha established the U.S. as an independent nation. To retrace the incredibly intricate course of this negotiation, Columbia's Professor Richard B. Morris spent five years puttering in French, British and U.S. archives. He came up covered with dust and glory, clutching original documents that compel a radical reinterpretation of Franco-American relations in the revolutionary...
...helps themselves by turning their back on the draft issue. I inspected all the possibilities open to me and choose the branch which suited me best," Beecher said. His training will soon begin in Yorktown...
...bastard son of a Breton-born chambermaid, and was sired not at Versailles but in Haiti in 1785. The father was Jean Audubon, a captain of French merchantmen and men-of-war. Though he commanded a corvette in Count de Grasse's fleet at the surrender of Yorktown in 1781, Jean Audubon was never, for all his son's boasting, of flag rank or a staff officer in the so-called "Battle of Valley Forge." He was also, despite land speculations in the Caribbean and Pennsylvania, ever at sea financially. When a native insurrection threatened his Haitian holdings...
...military barracks near cities). Forty-one sites in 21 states have been picked, about 130 are projected for completion by next June. Governors can veto Job Corps installations in their states if they wish, but so far none have. Still, Shriver has had his problems with local folks. In Yorktown, Va., last September, residents set up a howl about plans for a corps camp near by because they feared an influx of "Negro hoodlums from Harlem." Shriver postponed plans for the Yorktown camp...