Word: heaviest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...marines' death toll, although the heaviest yet suffered by any U.S. unit in Viet Nam, was less than 1% of the attacking forces. In all, some 50 marines were killed in the battle for Van Tuong, and another 150 wounded. And, reported one marine commander, "nearly 75% of them were shot in the back" from hidden V.C. positions they had passed without seeing...
Call from Bull. Heaviest fighting began in the west, where Echo, Gulf and Hotel Companies of the 4th Marine Regiment's 2nd Battalion landed in helicopters and were immediately pinned down by automatic-weapons fire from a low ridge ahead of them. After two hours, Marine jets swooped in with rockets, and the battalion's tough commander, Lieut. Colonel Joseph ("Bull") Fisher, led a walking skirmish line up the ridge, with every third man firing from the hip. "Come on, you marines," yelled Bull Fisher as enemy bullets zipped past, "those ain't pinball machines firing...
...Perspectives. This final installment opens on the battle of Fredericksburg and closes with Lincoln's assassination. "It was the heaviest bullet, all things considered," writes Catton, "ever fired in America." Wherever possible Catton finds new perspectives along that blood-soaked two-year trail. Of Chickamauga, he writes: "The Union government sent 37,000 soldiers to Tennessee: the Confederacy sent Jefferson Davis. The contrast does not reflect different ideas about what was needed: it simply measures the extent of the resources at hand. Each government did the most it could...
...Knockouts. The Viet Cong had reason enough to work out in nip-ups rather than knockouts. According to Saigon, they sustained their heaviest losses of the war last month: 3,050 dead (by actual body count), an estimated 6,000 wounded, 4,130 defectors -about the equivalent of a full combat division. Clearly, the losses were hurting. Squawking to North Viet Nam, the Viet Cong requested enough volunteers to "step up the resistance of the war ten times." The request, of course, was a mere formality, since Hanoi is estimated to have 10,000 regulars in the South already...
...needed: a good week. The bears prowled the Street aggressively, their instincts sharpened by an 11% drop in the Dow-Jones industrial average that has cost investors $50 billion in paper values. But the bulls waited for the right moment to stampede. In some of the wildest, tensest and heaviest trading in years, the Dow-Jones industrial index last week rallied 35 points in the final four trading sessions. The close: 875.16, a gain of 21 points for the week. The market was so emotional and uncertain that not even the bravest bulls felt sure about how long or strong...