Word: all-out
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...middle are the apathetics, who simply are not concerned enough to think through their own stand. Then come the pragmatists, who may have little enthusiasm for the war but feel that the U.S. is committed to fight it, and on the right the hawks, who are eager to demonstrate their all-out support...
Semantic Problem. While Americans generally were at last beginning to realize that this was no remote frontier skirmish but an all-out war, there was still considerable confusion over where it would lead. To many, the very word "negotiations" had talismanic power, as though a swift and honorable solution were waiting readymade if only the statesmen could find the magic formula. To be sure, U.S. officials have taken every opportunity to underscore their determination to negotiate peace terms. But even if North Viet Nam were to agree to sit down at the bargaining table tomorrow, the killing might well continue...
...President to expand the war on the ground still further, to press our advantage, to try to reconquer more and more of Vietnam. Any expansion of the war before all efforts at negotiation have failed offers very little in return for more deaths and a greater danger of ...
...ammunition come from Red China and Russia. More important, goes the U.S. reasoning, if Ho Chi Minh's "hostage" industries-coal and iron mines, port facilities and Red River dams-were taken out, he might enlarge the war by sending his 450,000-man army south in an all-out move to take South Viet...
...jungle cries was nothing compared to an all-out battle royal between the Marine Commandos' motorcycle team and that movie prop of the century, James Bond's well-armed Aston Martin DB5. The Bondmobile, piloted by a U.S. racing driver, cornered so closely that it fluttered the bunting in front of the box seats and left tire rubber all over the arena-which was also littered with cartridge shells from the mock...