Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This would make conferences and delays unnecessary, might topple the Ho regime, and would permit the gradual withdrawal of ground forces without our trying to control the government we would leave behind. My own year's living among the Chinese Communists makes me believe that this approach might be worth considering...
With his famous other hand, Johnson signaled that the U.S. was not going to accept the North Korean action meekly. Accordingly, he called up 14,787 Air Force and Navy Reservists, mobilized 372 inactive aircraft, hinted that some ground troops might follow, and thus released hundreds of operational war planes for service in Japan and South Korea. Ironically, the Korean crisis thus gave Johnson an unsought dividend by enabling him to activate reserve units-a move he had seriously contemplated to alleviate serious shortages in Viet Nam but had rejected as too risky politically...
...concluded that it was not defensible and pulled its garrison back into the base. Nearly 1,000 of its villagers were evacuated by C-123s and helicopters to Danang. When the Communists moved large guns into the village, U.S. pilots had no choice but to level it to the ground...
...ground her glove I found...
Coolidge said yesterday that he has been particularly pleased by the Fogg's recent series of open exhibitions, and noted that the Museum continues to be a major training-ground for museum curators and directors. He added that the Fogg has strengthened its collections of prints and drawings and of Oriental art with important acquisitions and loans...