Word: slides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australia-New Zealand Army Corps is a 150-man, six-gun, 105-mm. battery) approach to the tactics of the Viet Nam war was honed in jungle warfare against the Japanese in World War II and the Communists in Malaya. Their credo: avoid trails, avoid villages, avoid resupply; slide into the jungle like a snake and hide, then terrorize the enemy at will. "Fortunately, we've trained and equipped ourselves for such a war as this in Southeast Asia for years," says Brigadier O. D. Jackson, commander of the First Australian Task Force in Viet Nam. Whereas U.S. commanders...
...Monogram Industries Inc. is a self-contained toilet modeled on those used in aircraft. It can be rolled to the bed side and locked there. When its top and sides are opened, they form screens to give the patient privacy. With the help of a "grab bar," he can slide from bed to toilet without putting weight on his legs. Though the flushing unit is designed for 12-volt D.C. operation, it can also work on standard house and hospital A.C. A pushbutton activates a mechanism for pumping 81 gallons of deodorant, disinfectant flushing solution -enough, say the manufacturers...
TIME and its reporters were banned in Indonesia in 1961, and President Sukarno has never been secretive about his opinion of our coverage, which sharply delineated the country's downward slide under his capricious rule. The situation drastically changed last September when an attempted Communist takeover was put down by the army, and the generals began to maneuver Sukarno into the background...
...within a week of her death, intellectual London was hunched over copies of a strange and terrible poem she had written during her last sick slide toward suicide. Daddy was its title; its subject was her morbid love-hatred of her father; its style was as brutal as a truncheon. What is more, Daddy was merely the first jet of flame from a literary dragon who in the last months of her life breathed a burning river of bale across the literary landscape...
...universe slide from my side...