Word: place
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory on the battlefield, and troops conventionally trained by the U.S. were a little like the British redcoats fighting in lines as they engaged in forest skirmishes against the American colonists and their Indian allies. Clumsy U.S. battalions in the mid-1960s were out of place in the jungles, swamps and highlands of South Viet Nam. The excitement of technology became an almost spiritual feeling among the military. Generals thought that bigger, faster weapons systems, particularly against peasants, would...
...moved from the Gund Hall construction site to occupy the Faculty Dining Club, a place where Harvard Faculty members relax in leisure and comfort and dine in elegance ignoring the fact that black people are suffering at the hands of Harvard's Racist Policies," he said...
...Harrison has concentrated on his own defense in practice this week, and the home court may help raise Harvard's shooting percentage. Harrison has also altered his starting line-up: 6'6" sophomore Brian Newmark will be playing center in place of George Yates...
...place of a conscript army, Friedman advocates a professional service. "A free society is not endangered by a professional army," he said. "Military coups result more often from conscript armies than volunteer armies...
Yovicsin's task will be to convince corporations and other organizations that Suffolk Downs is a good place to entertain visitors and customers...