Word: basely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulbright maintained that Dirksen wanted to turn Viet Nam into a permanent U.S. base and that "a nuclear exchange" was bound to result. Dirksen disagreed. "I cannot believe that mankind has so sloughed off its compassion and its common sense as to get into that kind of a hole-yet." But, replied Fulbright, if the Communists "are as dangerous a menace as you would lead us to believe because of Viet Nam, then surely we could have no assurance that they would not use nuclear weapons." Retorted Dirksen: "They know that nobody ever won an earthquake, and they...
...took advantage of the last clear days before the monsoon to wreak unusually heavy damage on North Viet Nam. To the south, the enemy shied away from major actions and, bowing to the superiority of U.S. firepower along the Demilitarized Zone, broke off the lengthy siege of the Marine base at Con Thien. Though Con Thien is not yet home free, its relief was a psychological boost to the entire U.S. effort in Viet...
...back to Thailand, the reaction is almost always the same: a dry, cotton mouth. "After that, the rest is a piece of cake," says Colonel Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr., 36, the three-war Negro fighter ace who was affectionately nicknamed "Black Panther" in Korea. "You fly back to your base, and go through all the work still to be done-the reporting, debriefing, ironing out the mistakes you made. We try to profit by each other's mistakes. It's a sort of aerial confession...
...winning runs came on one decent hit and some neat base running in the ninth. With Scott on first with a walk. Reggie Smith sliced a double into the left field corner. Then with men on second and third with no outs, the Cards walked Petrocelli intentionally to get at Elston Howard's 180 average...
...think, from what one participant said later, that the Viet Cong would become discouraged on one particular day in the future and give up fighting. The students, though not privy to any of the inside military information which Bundy had, considered the Assistant Secretary of State "way off base...