Word: domino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brothers Four. The U.S. is deeply committed to hold South Viet Nam against the Chinese-backed Viet Cong guerrillas, because?according to the old "falling domino theory"?Laos and Cambodia would be outflanked, Thailand caught in a vise, and the Malay Peninsula severely threatened if South Viet Nam were to fall. The U.S. is pouring $1,000,000 a day into the country and has sent 14,000 tough, savvy military "advisers" to sharpen the government's war effort against the Red guerrillas. Amid the frustrating military ups and downs, the overriding questions...
...community remained aloof from the strangers for months. The turning point came when calls went out for blood to increase the supplies in the clinic's blood bank. The Germans volunteered with the rest. Since then, collective members have invited Germans into their homes, take them along to domino contests and movie nights in Tel Aviv. Fortnight ago, Israelis watched curiously as one of the Germans sobbed during memorial services for the Jewish victims of Crystal Night.* The murderous evening of raids in November 1938 that marked the start of Hitler's campaign to annihilate Germany...
...skeletal plan for a two-story, prefabricated house of reinforced concrete that was so simple it might have been the design for a child's toy. It consisted of six columns, three horizontal concrete slabs, a cantilevered staircase-and that was all. But the simple plan for the Domino house contained a principle that was to be basic to all of his planning thereafter. The six-column skeleton relieved the facades and the interior walls of support functions: they could thus be moved and molded at will, giving the architect all the prerogatives of the sculptor. The Domino houses...
...That Just Like a Woman (Fats Domino; Imperial). The last angry rock 'n' roller puts the finger on some famous ladies, Eve and Marie Antoinette. His charge: "You can buy a woman clothes/ Give her money on the side/ No matter what you do/ They's never satisfied...
...Oscar Robertson, may I go to the rest room?" When the Royals are in town, Robertson hunches over the kitchen table and meticulously helps Yvonne keep her school records, takes her dancing (he is accomplished in such steps as the "horse" and the "slop"), spins his records of Fats Domino, and resolutely stays in bed when she goes off to work. "Maybe he thinks he's not going to get enough sleep," says Yvonne. "Maybe all pro basketball players are tired all the time...