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...their 25,000 support troops in the latter half of 1969, Nixon could manage to bring home 40,000 men. If nothing else, such a decision would at least buy him a concession from Hanoi (if the withdrawal were negotiated) and certainly, as the South Vietnamese watched the first layer of their U.S. insulation stripped away, a new sense of urgency on the part of Saigon...
Medical Journal. Just what it is in onions that exerts a protective effect is not known, but Menon hopes to find it by peeling off layer after layer of the many complex chemicals contained in the lachrymatory vegetable...
Scott was naked. His moving body might have passed for very light drapes whipping in a slow wind. then everything grew dark as the moon passed behind a thick layer of clouds. Mirna...
...routine developed during three foggy weeks of tests, a helicopter was flown to an altitude of 500 ft. above the mist, where it hovered until the turbulence of its downdraft traced a cir cular outline about 5,000 ft. in diameter on the upper layer of fog. The chopper then descended to 100 ft. above the fog and, at a speed of 30 m.p.h., began to fly in a gradually enlarging spiral pattern until it reached the edge of the circular outline. Within a minute, the fog began to fade away at the center of the circle. Ten minutes later...
...foremen reports in that one of the groves has hit 26 degrees. It's always easy for veterans to pick out the novices in the waiting crowds: first-time smudgers stupidly wear clean clothes, not knowing that their whole body surfaces will be coated with a delightful smudge-oil layer by the time they get done. The novices also provide a few laughs for the crowd when they innocently try to drink some of the shed's "coffee," which tastes strangely like freshly drained smudge...