Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready to go without stopping [the bombing], or after stopping, if they are willing to do likewise, or if they are willing to make any concession. But I don't think it's fair to ask an American commander in chief to say to your men, 'Ground your planes, tie your hands behind you, and sit there and watch division after division come across the DMZ [demilitarized zone], and don't hit them until they get within a mile or two of you.' I don't think that's fair to American Marines...
Scrambling from Korat, Takhli and Ubon bases in Thailand, 56 Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs and F-4C Phan toms headed for a mid-air refueling rendezvous with their KC-135 tankers, then zeroed in on the giant steelworks. Despite "extremely heavy" flak and ground fire that brought down one F-105 (the 480th plane lost over North Viet Nam in the air war), the U.S. jets unloaded more than 80 tons of bombs, mostly 750-pounders, on the target. Smoke billowed 5,000 ft. into the air, preventing a damage assessment. Next day the planes went back to Thai...
...picked young assistants because he was sure his kind of admissions office would be a perfect testing ground for their administrative skills and interest in students. Monro was hired by Bender in 1946, when all this was still an idea; eight years later, Monro was in charge of financial aid. And that year, with the same instinct, Bender hired Glimp...
...there are now more Central Committee members holding this post than in 1960. Any number of examples can be cited to show the lack of upward mobility in other Chinese institutions. A particularly interesting case is found within the Communist Youth League, an organization regarded as the prime recruiting ground for CCP members. When founded in 1949 its leadership consisted of "youths" (mostly in their thirties) who had joined the Communists as students in the middle or late 1930's. Yet of the 60 original League Central Committee members in 1949, only seven reached the Party Central Committee elected...
...could the Congress project hope that the situation would improve after a while. Its performance in the monsoon session of the last Parliament in 1966, was incredibly poor and the opposition, despite its numerical weakness--134 seats out of 500--had completely dominated the proceedings. The impression was gaining ground that Congress was losing its grip over the situation and the country was hopelessly drifting towards chaos and economic stagnation. Devaluation of the Rupee did little to improve matters and it began to be said openly that the government had succumbed to Western pressure in agreeing...