Word: hit-and-run
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...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...
Moreover, the U.S. tactical formations were made to order for just the sort of Communist hit-and-run attack that occurred, and Air Force Boss McConnell is determined that the Thunderchiefs' misfortune will not be repeated...
...Gregory in New Orleans, no one would ever go home again except to leave a change of address. Herbie Chandler, the bell captain, can package and deliver a well-mounted orgy in three hours flat. Ogilvie, the house detective, will accept $25,000 to forget about a hit-and-run accident. There are shortcomings, of course, and once in a while even a mechanical slipup, like the business with the elevator. The assistant general manager "made a mental note" to find out what was wrong as early as page 40. But what with one thing and another (if he wasn...
...preparations for "retaliatory action." British officers are restrained on the subject of "hot pursuit" of Indonesian marauders back into Indonesia. They would seriously strike Indonesia only if it actually bombed Malaysia or launched a massive invasion. What the British really expect is more of the same sort of hit-and-run harassment. But they have beefed up their guard, as one Whitehall official put it, in case "Sukarno goes...
...methods, too, King has lagged. Two groups, SNCC and CORE, have a policy of remaining in the areas that they enter, developing local leadership, and sharing the victories, the defeats, and the risks that the local people experience. King, however, operates in a hit-and-run fashion. When he moves into an area, he is neither familiar with past efforts, nor in touch with the local people. In Albany, Ga., in Birmingham, and in St. Augustine, he selected a city where other civil rights groups were already working, flew in for several weeks, fired up local Negroes to heated protests...