Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other times during the first two days of the flight, the ground-to-space communications system was as chatty as a rural party line. At one point, Gus Grissom sent up to McDivitt the news that his son's Pee Wee League team, the Hawks, had defeated the Pelicans 3 to 2, and to White the fact that his son had got a hit in a Little League game that...
...problem stood foremost. The air support that saved the day at Quangngai and Binhchanh cannot be counted on in the rainy weeks ahead, when monsoonal cloud ceilings will touch the roof of the highland jungles. For much of each day during the next few months it will be a ground war, with the weather favoring the hit-and-run tactics of the lightly equipped Communists. With the rains beginning in South Viet Nam, small streams are already swelling into muddy torrents that will soon wash out bridges and roads...
There was some tidying of the war room. Created in 1949 as a bulwark against a Russian ground invasion of Western Europe, NATO for most of its existence has been unrealistically committed to the goal of 30 divisions in Europe backed up by stockpiled supplies sufficient to support them through 90 days of combat. At slightly more than 26 divisions today, NATO is the closest it has ever come to that goal. For the first time, the ministers openly admitted what most Europeans had privately felt for some time-that, as one diplomat put it, "the idea of a full...
Imbert's decision cut the ground from under Caamaño, who claims that he is fighting for a return to democracy. At the news of Imbert's agreement, Caamaño muttered: "It's a fairy tale." He flatly refused to participate in new elections, still demanded a return to the 1963 constitution-which means that Caamaño would serve out the remaining two years of Bosch's term. Ignored was the technicality that the 1963 constitution forbids military officers from holding office. "First," cried Caamaño, "the revolution's goal must...
Cutting the Ground. Until now, Imbert had been insisting on a fight to the finish against Caamaño. He was still grumbling, and so were his officers, who were itching to clean out the rebels. But after days of talk with OAS Secretary-General Jose Mora, Imbert at last agreed that a bloodbath was hardly the answer to the Dominican Republic's ills, accepted an OAS plan to hold new elections, possibly within the next two to three months...