Word: moments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral John Hyland was summoned by news of the seizure from a dinner party at his Hawaii home. At the same moment, Hyland's boss, CINCPAC Commander Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp, was on the opposite side of the Pacific, conferring in Danang with General William Westmoreland. Unaccountably, Sharp was not informed of Pueblo's plight until he had flown from Danang and landed on the carrier Kittyhawk-a lapse...
...only 50 in 1966; 117 exchanges of fire compared with only 19 in 1966; and 122 men of the U.N. command killed (including 16 Americans) v. 35 the year before. No wonder Kim warned recently that "a tense situation in which a war may break out at any moment has been created in our country...
...North Vietnamese crept up, neatly cut a passage through for future use, and replaced it to look as though nothing had been disturbed. Each day, as they wait, the Marines dig in deeper, filling shiny grey sandbags and adding more layers atop their bunkers, preparing for the inevitable moment when Giap makes the ultimate test of Khe Sanh's defenses...
...young woman, think with a natural terror about what awaits you if you refuse conscription; and perhaps you will not feel strong enough to bear the consequences of refusal, and knowing your weakness, will submit and become a soldier. I understand completely, and I do not for a moment allow myself to blame you, knowing very well that in your place I might perhaps do the same thing. Only do not say that you did it because it was useful or because everyone does it. If you did it, know that you did wrong," Tolstoy wrote...
...moment, Danish law broadly allows virtually anything to be shown on the screen except an actual sex act. In the current Danish film, Venom, just released in the U.S., the most explicit scenes are covered by a censor's huge white X. The story line-if it can be called that-is about a youth who tries to convince his girl friend and her parents that sex is everything. His principal occupation is making voyeuristic movies of sexual intercourse. The X blots out most of his underground work, however, leaving the film with hardly a shock...