Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position is even less favorable in the two northern corps. There the enemy continues to roam almost at will in large units, forcing the Americans to stay holed up in their bases most of the time. In the Central Highlands of the II Corps last week three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars managed to break through the perimeter wire of a U.S. artillery base and overran one howitzer position...
...made their combat debut over North Viet Nam, the F-l 11 flew right into another, even more serious controversy. On only the third and sixth days of combat, two of the $6,000,000 planes went down in Southeast Asia. One of them failed to return to its base in Thailand on a bombing mission to North Viet Nam; the other crashed in Thailand...
...after they ran into-but failed to recognize-their balance of payments problems. Founded on plunder, Rome as an empire lacked the manufacturing, agriculture and commerce to pay for its costly imports. Trajan added copper to the once 99%-pure-silver denarius, and later the coin became wholly base metal. A century before Alaric sacked the Eternal City in A.D. 410, Rome had lost not only its purchasing power but also the wherewithal to resist barbarians at its borders...
Nixon said that McCarthy's style is the second factor. He described it as "honest and candid." "I think that McCarthy will wear better than Bobby," he said. "Bobby appeals to all the base emotions...
...majority who do that he is personally barring the door against terrific pressures from the murky outside. Following New Hampshire, Johnson's "lonely crusader" pose has become much more credible and may even work to counteract the image of image of willful petulance which has been at the base of much of the anti-Johnson sentiment in the country. As George Meany told the Building and Construction Workers, "I don't think we are going to turn a back on a friend just because he has a difficult task to perform at a time when he needs his friends more...