Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stroudsberg fought back, and even led 11-10, but the Crimson didn...
...Northerners' progress was weirdly effortless. They rolled across the Central Highlands. There the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) collapsed in headlong panic. The ARVN soldiers fought bravely elsewhere, notably around Xuan Loc, but the Communists drove steadily south. They overwhelmed all the place-names that had become so improbably familiar: Quang Tri, Hue, Danang, Kontum, Pleiku, Nha Trang...
...other anniversaries of this season, such as next month's 40th anniversary of V-E day, will have about them a certain triumphal air for Americans. They will celebrate not merely the fact that the U.S. won but that they fought on the side that incontestably should have won. The outcome of World War II seemed to validate American power as an instrument of virtue in the world...
...fall of Saigon is a vastly more complex occasion. The U.S. lost the war, although technically, of course, the country was out of it by the time of the final collapse. But the loss itself was not as traumatic (for Americans, anyway) as the way that the war was fought, the way it was perceived, and peculiarly hated. The struggle was waged, savagely, in Southeast Asia. But it was also fought in America, in American institutions, in the American streets and, above all, in the American conscience...
...film town of Port Alamo, "Anglo" shrimp fishermen battle the current, the depressed prices and the influx of Vietnamese refugees plying an old trade in a new land. Shang (Ed Harris) is one such rowdy all-American, working his ancestral fishing grounds and feeling threatened by the Asians he fought to defend a world and a war ago. Dinh (Ho Nguyen) is a bright, ambitious immigrant who wants a chance to make a living in Port Alamo, whatever the odds. "You gotta be one of the last cowboys left in Texas," Dinh is told by Shang's lady friend Glory...