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Word: doubtfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only half that?and some observers think that that may be the case when all the combat reports filed in the swirl of battle are cross-checked?it would still represent a huge bloodletting of the enemy's forces in South Viet Nam. Even the lower estimates leave no doubt about who won the actual battles: U.S. dead numbered 367 and South Vietnamese military dead about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Gamble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...Impression of Stalemate. There was no doubt about who was the strategist behind the Communists' desperate thrust: North Viet Nam's Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, the charismatic victor over the French at Dienbienphu in 1954 and creator of the North Vietnamese army. In its surprise, its boldness, the sweep of its planning and its split-second orchestration, the general offensive bore all the unmistakable marks of Giap's genius. All the evidence indicated, in fact, that probably for the first time since the war against the French, Giap was personally directing the entire campaign in South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Gamble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Such tactics no doubt contributed to the failure of the Vietnamese to heed the call to a "general uprising." No sooner had the general offensive got under way than both the Viet Cong radio and Radio Hanoi began calling for the South Vietnamese to greet the attackers as liberators, for ARVN soldiers to throw in their arms with the Communists and help overthrow the Thieu government. In Hué and Saigon, the Communists announced the formation of revolutionary Committees of the Alliance of National and Peace Forces. But throughout South Viet Nam there were few takers. In Danang, when a Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Gamble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Inevitably, the upsurge in trading has led to some sharprises, often followed by precipitous falls, in the shares of relatively small companies that have more promise than profit. But there is no doubt that most institutions have earned much more than they would have if they had invested only in bonds or blue-chip stocks. Last year one-third of the nation's major mutual funds gained 33% or more, and several rose better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT MAKES THE STOCK MARKET GO UP--AND DOWN | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Feb. 9, 1968 | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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