Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Theatre Collection dates from 1915, when Robert Gould Shaw, class of 1869, a cousin of the Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who led the first Negro regiment in the Civil War, gave the University his private theatre collection...
...defense rings around major cities and by boring in on the logistical groundwork that must precede any successful offensive. "If you can destroy the people who are preparing the battlefield, then the guys on the border can't get there," explained a U.S. general. Thus, last week three regiments of the 1st Marine Division ended a three-week cordon operation in Quang Nam province south of Danang that stripped the area as a staging ground. They moved all 2,650 civilians out of the village of Thanh Phong, then encircled and hunted down infiltrators from a regiment of North...
Tactical or Political? Another area of concern is the region around Danang, the country's second-largest city and the hub of I Corps. Three times in six days last week, Communist gunners raked allied base complexes in Danang with rocket and mortar fire. The South Vietnamese 51st Regiment tangled with a North Vietnamese unit twelve miles south of the city and reported killing 253. In Danang itself, a rash of terrorist grenadings resulted in a one-day, 24-hour curfew. Yet the remainder of I Corps, not long ago the main theater of fighting, appears unaffected. Allied intelligence...
...DIEHARD: Taken from the nickname of the Middlesex Regiment, the 57th Foot, acquired at the Battle of La Albuera in 1811, when the badly wounded commander exhorted his troops: "Die hard, men, die hard!" The term was later applied to a recalcitrant faction in the House of Lords...
...tries to preserve her hopes, which comes to mean in the end simply preserving the life of her last son, the effects are puzzling but no more. To the blacks, (the only ones shown in the play are a group of captured soldiers from an all-black Northern regiment) the event is a sordid release but one that, it is amply implied, will get them nowhere...