Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American pilots who in one year have forged a brilliantly successful new tactical role for air power over Viet Nam, showed last week that the U.S. can indeed succeed. On the ground, American fighting men are not only taking on wily veterans of guerrilla warfare but are also inflicting losses that no foe can afford to take indefinitely. Yet in the long run, the kind of success envisaged by the President can be earned only by the nation that is most determined to win-at any price. The time for magnanimity, as the U.S. finally made clear last week...
Weaving in from different headings and altitudes to outfox the ground gunners, the attacking jets approached at medium height, climbed abruptly, then dive-bombed their targets, plunging through sheets of bullets and shrapnel. "As we approached, I knew we had a go," said Hopkins. "The weather was beautiful, but the sky was filled with automatic-weapons fire and flak. I laid my bombs down the center of the area occupying the storage buildings and pump houses." Hopkins' co-leader, Major James H. Kasler, 40, of Indianapolis, recalls: "The whole place was going up. Every bomb that went...
What would become of the 72,000 French ground troops in West Germany? Last week Paris and Bonn reached an interim agreement that will permit the French to remain on German soil while a new, non-NATO basis for their presence is negotiated. This week French Premier Georges Pompidou flies to London for talks with Harold Wilson on the possibility of British entry into the Common Market. To pave the way for those discussions, British Defense Minister Denis Healey apologized for intemperate charges (that leaked out of a private meeting) accusing Charles de Gaulle of being "a bad partner...
...weeks, with summer touring getting into full swing, air travel in Western Europe has been a chancy proposition. The Scandinavian Airlines System's pilots were on strike for ten days; Sabena personnel were locked out after two weekend walkouts to press for a new work contract; Alitalia ground personnel walked out for the third time since May, and Air France employees went on their sixth short strike of the year...
Even the engineering mind has begun to boggle at the profusion of space-speak-which explains the reduction of some complex nominal compounds to straightforward acronyms. "Augmented target docking adapter" has become ATDA, "astronaut maneuvering unit" is known as AMU, and the "electronic ground automatic destruct sequencer" -used to blow up missiles that have gone astray-is known simply as EGADS...