Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountain men-a mixture of Hrey, Bahnar, Rhade and Muong tribals -dug in and held. As they turned their mortars on their own overrun positions, their women carted ammunition into the trenches and fed belts into the clatter ing machine guns. It was a grim sort of togetherness, born of desperation. "I think the montagnards fought well because most had their families with them," said an American adviser. "These people are ruthless when it comes to life or death. One guy was in a bunker, completely cut off, and the V.C. called on him to surrender. He told them...
These scenes were enacted with grim realism last week in the fictional land of Lancelot-actually a segment of the Southern California coast at the Ma rine Corps' Camp Pendleton. It was all part of Silver Lance, the most massive and elaborate war game staged by the U.S. armed forces in the two decades since World...
From its roots, the word Lent-akin to the way the days "lengthen" early in the year-essentially means spring. For Christians, it recalls Jesus' 40-day fast in the wilderness, and began to be observed no later than the 4th century. For medieval man, Lent was a grim, belt-tightening time: only one meal a day was permitted; meat, milk, eggs and cheese were forbidden foods...
Hardware in the Sky. Even with the added punch of the U.S. jets, things looked grim in the six northernmost provinces. Steady infiltration from North Viet Nam (see following story) gave the Viet Cong parity in both arms and men with the government's 20,000-man I Corps...
...maintaining radio silence. "We steered more for speed than for course," he said, "even if it took us farther out." In midocean, Ondine met no frustrating countercurrents and got the benefit of fresh winds. Day after day, she boomed along at a fantastic average speed of 7½ knots. Grim and tense, Long took at least ten sightings a day, sent deck hands scurrying to change sails as often as every 20 minutes...