Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chill, grey mist hangs over the jungled hills around Khe Sanh and drifts down onto the base's metal run way. The morning mist often lasts into the afternoon, the bright sun of recent weeks is lost in monsoonal overcast, and the air is raw and wet with winter. The camp seems to have settled into a dull, lethargic pace to match the dull, damp weather that envelops it. In a mood of resignation, Marines go about their life-or-death work, digging into the red clay, filling sandbags, bolstering the bunkers they know are their one protection against...
...What earthly purpose do you serve by showing our wounded or dead in such heartbreaking pictures? What consolation is this for the families who have lost men in battle? You speak about the poor taste the comedians use on television today-well, you top them all with your choice of pictures. I am wondering if some of the news media are trying to color the public's view about this...
Ultimatum. By the weekend, the fight was clearly lost. Parts of the city were reeking, and Lindsay could do nothing except stand on principle. At the end of the strike's ninth day, Rockefeller announced a settlement that was really an ultimatum to Lindsay. The union agreed to send its men back to work immediately in exchange for the $425 pay raise that Lindsay had earlier rejected. The city would either agree to pay it or the state, by means of a special measure that Rockefeller will request of the legislature this week, would assume temporary control...
...others grew, the relative power of the U.S. inevitably shrank. In two decades, its share of the world's income dropped to one-third, its steel production fell from three-fifths to onequarter, its great gold stock melted as the balance of payments shifted. And most significantly, it lost its unique position as the world's only nuclear nation...
...bringing such destruction into civilian areas, the Viet Cong lost more people than they gained. But the South Vietnamese government undoubtedly was tarred by the same brush. Saigon was blamed for not being able to keep the Viet Cong out of the cities in the first place-and then for having to devastate wide areas to get rid of the enemy. Who lost the more remains to be seen. "It depends," says the I Corps U.S. commander, Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., "on how fast the government provides assistance to rebuild homes, offices, roads and bridges...