Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relieve the choking congestion of Saigon port proper. From the beginning, Newport was planned as a wholly U.S.-operated military port, with American soldiers of the 71st Transportation Battalion doing the stevedoring and all the other work. The idea was to minimize pilferage, the chances of sabotage, and the risk of U.S. military equipment's falling into enemy hands...
Radical Gags. Unable to get much advertising because of its controversial editorial content, Ramparts lost about $500,000 last year, Hinckle says. But it runs no risk as long as it has his enthusiastic support, plus that of several other radical-leaning San Francisco businessmen and intellectuals. Ramparts pays the going rate for contributions, supports a staff of 26, many of whom are political activists as well as ardent journalists. Managing Editor Robert Scheer ran for Congress in the Democratic primary last year on a New Left platform calling for unilateral withdrawal from Viet Nam. He lost, but he gave...
...more of what we are doing now," shrugged one Air Force spokesman in Saigon. "We are not up there chasing MIGs. We are trying to put bombs on targets." So far, those targets have not included MIG airfields themselves, since Washington does not yet consider them worth the risk of enlarging the war. But if air opposition reached the point where U.S. planes were constantly forced to jettison their bombloads in order to defend themselves before reaching their targets, then the Air Force would be all for a shift in tactics-if the White House permitted it. "The MIGs," says...
...cloth tapes and spirit levels (to spot a dropping shoulder); it takes eight minutes just to get the rig on, after which Norton spends up to half an hour taking 25 separate measurements. "If they were standing at attention at the beginning, they relax by the end; so the risk of missing a comfortable fit is less," explains Norton...
...greens, no motels crammed the long, empty spaces between the grotesque Victorian "cottages." The houses along the lonely beaches on Long Island's aristocratic tip were inhabited by "seemingly enchanted people who lived untouched by the Depression." To them, gaiety was an art, gossip passed for conversation, and risk sports served as discipline. Just inshore from the thudding surf, they busied themselves with a series of interlinked liaisons that would boggle the imagination of an Iris Murdoch. It was, perhaps, no place for children; adults thought the children were aware only of the surf...