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Word: combats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spread covering the embassy attack my eating came to an abrupt end. No one, certainly, would applaud your printing of such photos, but maybe such gruesome sights are what we need to be brought back to the grim reality that the news on TV is not just reruns of Combat, where the guy killed this week will return to co-star next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 23, 1968 | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...July, but are merely an acceleration of the buildup. Westmoreland has made no official request to exceed the ceiling of 525,000-that is, not yet. However, no one will be surprised if the general does ask for more men, and gets them: he is already strapped for combat-ready ground units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Thin Green Line | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...even more important, one we should not wish to win." As far back as the early days of John F. Kennedy's presidency, when Berlin, Cuba and Laos loomed as the most menacing trouble spots for the U.S., Galbraith was counseling against the dispatch of even a few American combat troops to South Viet Nam. "A few," he advised Kennedy in 1962, "will mean more and more and more." His forecast proved flawless. From 773 advisers at the start of the decade, the U.S. force grew to more than 16,000 under Kennedy and half a million under Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Great Mogul | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...armored personnel carriers to spearhead their attack, but the long straight streets of the old quarter enabled Communist gunners to knock them out from half a mile away. With only three of their original twelve APCs still operative, the ARVN troopers started the same house-to-house combat as the Marines on the other side of the fetid Perfume River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Battle of Hu | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...reservists and veterans. After Pueblo was seized last month, the U.S. began bringing its two divisions in the South up to their full 50,000-man strength, flew in planes to three Korean airbases, and promised to speed delivery of $30 million worth of military equipment designed to combat infiltration from the North. In addition, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for an immediate military aid appropriation of $100 million -part of a $3 billion foreign aid program sent to Congress last week-to buy materiel for South Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Still Dangling | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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