Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mobility and firepower have so changed the context that the U.S. patrol is never really alone. It thus can probe aggressively deeper and deeper into Viet Cong sanctuaries until the Viet Cong are forced to come out and fight. Helicopters lift artillery batteries forward to keep an advancing patrol always in range of the "fan," or radius, of the gun's shells. Jet fighter-bombers always stand ready to be up and over any target in South Viet Nam within minutes in support of an attacked patrol. If neither shells nor bombs are enough, the helicopter can also bring...
...have been wiped out on deep patrol and some platoons so badly mauled that they could no longer operate as units. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese have themselves countered with fresh tactics, including deep patrols of their own. But the enemy's main thrust has been at forward U.S. artillery batteries that make American deep patrols both possible and potent. In recent weeks the Communists have launched frantic attacks at U.S. forward fire bases from Camp Carroll along the Demilitarized Zone to Bong Son near the eastern coast. When mortaring, though, they have only two minutes...
NASA was showing signs of looking forward again by the end of last week. It announced that after analysis of the pictures taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 in February, eight "candidate" lunar landing sites have now been chosen...
...time for mitun-which is Hebrew for slow down, and has become the government's slogan for a slew of measures designed to put the brakes on the economy. "The objective," explained Israeli Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, "is simply to step back a pace in order to leap forward." So far, that step back has been bigger than anyone expected...
Part of a System. Kuznetsov seems refreshingly careless about which official toes he steps on, and there is hardly a stereotyped opinion-or character-in the book on either side. His grandfather is pictured as first looking forward to the Nazi reign with something like enthusiasm, since he had never forgiven the Communists for robbing him "of his dream of getting rich" as "an entrepreneur." And although hatred for the Germans seethes through nearly every page, Kuznetsov also renders faithfully the few encounters with Germans who showed him or his family any kindness...