Word: descended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sealed Off. The destruction of Ben Sue, a Saigon River village complex that supported the Viet Cong, was typical. It took only a minute and a half for 60 helicopters to descend on the village with a battalion of the U.S. 1st Division. While loudspeakers warned residents to stay in their homes, infantrymen quickly sealed off the town, catching many of its Viet Cong defenders by surprise. The villagers were assembled and the men between 15 and 45 led off for questioning. Within three days, Ben Sue was deserted, its people and their possessions loaded aboard boats and shipped twelve...
Waterside will be a mixing place in yet another sense. Not only will the large central plaza, planned to descend in terraces to boat landings at the river's edge, include shops, a restaurant and theater; it will also be tied to Manhattan by an overhead pedestrian bridge and two vehicular underpasses beneath the F.D.R. Memorial Drive. A parking area for 740 cars will be provided on a second level under the plaza. "We want to make the area a 24-hour sort of place," says Brody, who expects that the plaza will become a rendezvous for people from...
...This is pure geometry," Breuer said, but he also saw some symbolism in the great stone darts, whose heights, he said, could stand for Roosevelt's concepts: "Their contours descend to meet the earth, much as the President's concepts reached out to the people for understanding, acceptance, and to become an integral part of the nation's thinking." But Breuer also sees the memorial, whose design F.D.R. Jr. finds "brilliant," as "very much a part of the land itself - a place in which to relax, to stroll, to sit around, to contemplate." It will cost from...
...says that after he leaves the presidency "there is no place I'd rather be than on the campus," was the deanship of a new school of public service to be located in the ancillary building. The lid also contains studies that ring a sunken patio; scholars will descend into the bookstack from above while the public climbs up from below to see the showcases chronicling the Johnsonian...
Students sometimes achieve the professors' measured gait. Their motion is not produced by serene detachment but rather by sheer terror. Generally it takes about two hour exams and a paper before a young student forgets himself enough to descend that...