Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came at a time when Hanoi and Peking have been suffering notable reverses. Allied ground forces have dug out scores of previously impenetrable Viet Cong sanctuaries in South Viet Nam. And week by week, troopship by troopship, the best-trained soldiers America has ever fielded are joining battlewise U.S. combat forces in Viet Nam. Last week Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that U.S. forces in Asia would soon total 235,000-an increase of 30,000 in less than a month. In the heaviest raids over the North to date, U.S. Navy and Air Force supersonic fighter-bombers last week...
...smooth efficiency of a computer. On the other hand, his critics point out, even a computer can make a mistake. By miscalculating the full demands of the Viet Nam war, they contend, the Defense Department has weakened the nation's worldwide commitments and run dangerously short of combat-ready troops. At a press conference aimed at answering his critics, most notably the Senate's Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee Chairman John Stennis and the New York Times, McNamara last week countered with a cool, 30-page review of U.S. defense capability and some not-so-cool comments...
Weariness could not wither nor repetition stale Hubert's infinite exuberance. Whether addressing U.S. combat units in Viet Nam or discussing the merits of U.S. tractors with Laotian officials, handing out Senate gallery passes to giggling Pakistani nurses or teaching Thai children to say "O.K." and "Goodbye," Humphrey was on center stage every minute of his trip. His only moment of humiliation came in, of all places, friendly Saigon, where, despite his blandishments and some rafter-ringing hooo-ees, the black Berkshire hogs at an agricultural-experiment station haughtily ignored the Vice President-evidence, no doubt, that the Viet...
...question their morality. The infamous Nacht und Nebel order of 1941, under which Resistance suspects from France to Rumania were hauled to their deaths in German concentration camps under cover of "night and fog," met with Keitel's most self-righteous concurrence. It-was the only way to combat "a kind of warfare launched by gangsters, spies and other skulking vermin." When Hitler suspended military laws against looting and pillage by German troops in Russia, Keitel's only objection was the fear that such license might be damaging to traditional troop discipline...
...something to do with Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, is vintage 1932 costume jewelry, so bad it's...well, bad. Inevitably, copies of the script will find their way to the shelves of TRUC, where they should nestle comfortably between the lunchpail ties and the back numbers of Combat Kelly...