Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam to the carpeted offices of the Pentagon, this stand brought the complaint among servicemen that their boss was not behind them. In 1963 and 1964, for economy reasons, McNamara also held down the Army's program to strengthen its helicopter force; now there is a crash drive on to form new helicopter units. Most serious of all-considering McNamara's reputation as an administrator and planner-is the giant logistics bottleneck in Viet Nam that is backing up ships and their precious military cargoes as far as Japan and slowing the U.S. war effort (TIME...
...announced figure of $58.3 billion for the year beginning July 1 may yet rise because of the war, but it would already be billions higher were it not for McNamara's reforms. Indeed, for the first time, the U.S. is waging a major military campaign overseas without crash mobilization or stringent economic controls at home...
...lumbering, freight-laden C-47 was a perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese copilot. But instead of greetings, the chopper crew got grenades...
...seven humid, wakeful nights, the crash of thunder and flash of lightning had kept the cariocas awake, and the superstitious among them wondered if the gods of darkness had decided to unloose their wrath. Apparently they had. Abruptly the skies opened over Rio, and in four days torrential rains dumped nearly two feet of water on the city. Declared Guanabara (Rio) Governor Francisco Negrāo de Lima: "This was not a rain; it was a Biblical deluge...
Based on a long-running Paris and London stage success that crash-landed on Broadway last year, Boeing limps along on the premise that broad French farce means a farce about broads in France. Curtis, faced by a crisis when a new line of jets with extra thrust brings all his airchicks to earth at once, sweats over a role that only suavity could save. He inevitably brings to mind the rather blunt question that one might ask about a fortyish satyr-about-town: not how he does it, but why. As a colleague who drops by to ogle Curtis...