Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strength. Every deficiency in activity and effort is then a weight on the scales in favor of the enemy. Then it is not so easy to change from the fencing posture into that of an athlete, and a slight blow is often sufficient to throw the whole to the ground...
...heartening move, North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to meet secretly with the U.S. prior to this week's session. At the very least, when faced off against the Hanoi-National Liberation Front's ten-point plan presented the week before, Nixon's proposals define a workable middle ground and provide both sides with their first solid basis for negotiations...
...Ground. Though not enumerated in the speech, the proposals divided neatly into eight steps, and White House advisers immediately began billing them as an eight-point plan, thus entering Nixon in the Great Peace-Point Derby.-In the heart of his speech, the President used almost contractual prose that Lawyer Nixon knows well. As a first step, he proposed agreement on mutual U.S., allied and North Vietnamese troop withdrawals. This would be followed, gradually and each time under new agreement, by creation of an "international supervisory body" that would verify troop pullbacks, arrange a final cease-fire and oversee national...
...attack on the South-but not the heaviest-since the infamous Tet offensive of 1968. From U.S. military bases to provincial cities to the psychological payoff target of Saigon, rocket shells and terrorist bombs exploded with deadly frequency. They were followed, especially at U.S. outposts and forward bases, by ground assaults that forced many units into close combat. As a result, the American death toll for each of the past two weeks rose above 300 for the first time in nearly two months -which is precisely where headline-conscious Communist strategists would like to keep...
...Derby is a mile-and-a-quarter, the Preakness is a mile-and-three-sixteenths, and the Belmont is a mile-and-a-half. The extra quarter-mile of ground makes a lot of difference...