Word: brunt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year Air Force veteran and an eight-MIG jet ace in Korea, Lieut.Colonel James Robinson Risner, 40, was the archetype of the professional who until recently has borne the brunt of the U.S. military effort in Viet...
...learned in the Korean War," said Clark, "was that we must not fight the Communists in a manpower war. The way to win is to hit hard and use all our air force and naval aviation powers." Above all, said Clark, the Reds must be made to feel the brunt of overwhelming force. Communists, he added, "respect force and stop, look and listen when they...
...same time, U.S. Navy and Air Force jets kept up their pounding of targets to the north. Barracks and PT boats, radar stations and ammo dumps caught the brunt of the aerial assault, and the bomb-line boomed ever closer to Hanoi. U.S. planes struck within 45 miles of the North Vietnamese capital, as if to challenge the half-dozen Soviet Ilyushin-28 jet bombers discovered by high-flying U.S reconnaissance planes late last month and at present sitting idly at Phucyen, just northwest of Hanoi. U.S. officials assume that the planes are Russian-piloted and represent Moscow...
...state Governors had become notorious well before 1962. Commentators noticed that increasingly large numbers of Governors were rejected by the voters between 1956 and 1963, although most U.S. Senators, Representatives, and state legislators were routinely re-elected. But fewer observers noticed that Governors, unlike Congressmen, had to bear the brunt of rising costs in education...
...Viet Nam, not many would care to make such a bet. In short, withdrawal would largely destroy American credibility as a reliable anti-Communist ally-in Bangkok, in Seoul, in Manila and elsewhere. It would push Cambodia and Indonesia completely into China's lap. Malaysia would catch the brunt of this power realignment, thus forcing the British into a narrow, nasty corner. According to many experts, Russia would regret this move as much as the U.S., since it would immensely strengthen Peking's pretensions to the leadership of world Communism...