Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...province east of Saigon an army officer next to me pointed out some Air Force jets in an airstrike. All I could see were the wings swooping down beneath some hills to reappear seconds later. Any explosions were hidden from sight by the hills. I saw plenty of old bomb craters filled with rain water. You could practically follow the craters right into the approaches to Saigon's Ton San Nhut airport. So there really is a war going, I thought. Such are first impressions...
...military aim of this conflict (as opposed to the social aim) is to kill or capture the enemy. Whether this is done by dropping into his lap Napalm, a thousand pound bomb, or an 8 in. artillery shell leaves a very slight difference...
...treaty designed to prevent the use of outer space for military attack was signed with great ceremony early last year by the United States and the Soviet Union. The recent announcements of the Russian orbital bomb and the American space bus indicate, sadly, that this agreement is already crumbling...
...pass receivers extremely tight to cut off the short pass, assuming that there won't be a long one. It is a tactic that could backfire against Oakland, considering the caliber of the Packers' offensive blockers. If Quarterback Starr gets the protection he needs to throw the bomb to such adept maneuverers as Split End Boyd Dowler and Flanker Carroll Dale, Jimmy the Greek could turn out to be a conservative...
Over and over, this theme is pressed home. What we Americans rely on our machines to do, the Vietnamese do with their hands. You don't have to take Greene's word for it. He shows you. A flood control dam, for instance. One bomb would destroy it. But then we see pleasants carrying buckets of water from a river to irrigation ditches, the way they have always done it. How many bombs will it take to destroy this method, the commentator asks. A railroad bridge is destroyed, and we see women fire-brigade-line-style lifting rocks to prop...