Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allies in a perilous position. He has created a situation in which he could conceivably recapture all that the allies have fought so long and hard to deny him over the past two years: the countryside, where everyone has always agreed the war must ultimately be won or lost. Even in the unlikely event that he does nothing further, Giap has already wrought physical and psychological damage that will take months or perhaps years to repair. Undeniably, he now has the initiative throughout South Viet Nam. In that feat alone, he has, in one stunning month, created an entirely...
...under the low-hanging clouds to dump napalm and explosives on enemy positions that are now as close as 300 yards to the base perimeter. The Marines are, in fact, relying on air to do the job of pinpoint destruction that their own artillery would normally undertake. Reason: they lost so many shells when their ammo dump was hit three weeks ago that they are conserving ammunition for the big attack...
...industry. In Detroit, for instance, the median private hourly wage was $2.04 in 1955-against $1.79 for government workers. By 1967, the gap had widened: $3.49 to $3.09. Not many employees any longer consider it a privilege to work for the government. The job security of civil service has lost considerable point in a boom economy, where the demand for labor outstrips the supply. The effect of all this is evident in one statistic. Although union membership nationally has increased only 15% since 1956, it has increased 60% in the field of government...
...listening to Wagner. I don't know about you, but I am grateful and will now say why." As Levin saw it, the confrontation in Viet Nam may be "confused and horrible, its aims blurred, its cost in innocent blood unaccountable. But if it is lost, if the Americans finally get tired of doing the world's work for nothing but the world's abuse, if South Viet Nam is left to its fate, then what will follow, as surely as Austria followed the Rhineland, and Czechoslovakia followed Austria, and Poland followed Czechoslovakia and six years...
...probing Southern mores with Jewish humor, Harry Golden, 64, closed down his bimonthly Carolina Israelite. He will merge it with the Nation, for which he will write a column. Health and financial problems caused him to give up the Charlotte, N.C., tabloid; in the last six years he has lost $65,000. "A man can open a Cadillac franchise for less money than newsprint and printing-labor cost," he wrote in his final issue. He added that he has also been losing his readership. "To the generation that succeeded mine, stories about the Lower East Side are like stories about...