Word: scorching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outwitted. The Senate, particularly, continues to scorch the Administration with criticism. Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton last week accused the Administration of "bland and probably inaccurate statements" about the war. By Morton's count, the number of antiwar Senators has grown from ten to 25 in the past year. One of that number is Illinois Republican Charles Percy, who is now asking a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet Nam, leaving the South Vietnamese government to survive or expire on its own. Ohio Democrat Stephen Young demanded that Westmoreland be replaced by "a more competent general" because...
...take over Porter's Office of Civilian Operations (OCO), which was put together in less than two months last year to combine and direct all U.S. civil operations in the field. Already, 4,000 of South Viet Nam's 14,000 hamlets are adjudged "secure"; under the scorch of Komer's torch, at least 1,100 more will be added this year. It is difficult to gauge, however, whether Saigon embassy personnel are more dismayed to see Porter leave or Komer arrive. Plainly, the first job confronting Komer will be to win the confidence of leary officials...
...remotely possible that, despite popular opposition, the U.S. Army could do what the French attempted in Algeria. Perhaps one could scorch and terrify the entire population into subservience. But the psychological and physical cost would be immense under the best circumstances, and the policy would risk eliciting open confrontation with the North. In such an event the odds are that Russia could not stand by and watch the United States fight a massive war in Vietnam without intervening. It is true that the Russians and Chinese might well "lose" the ensuing conflict. Nevertheless this entire chain of prospects seems totally...
Royal Yokel. In that time an arrogant young upstart was transformed into a chastened commander with an inglorious but practical strategy: fight in small detachments, hit and run, scorch the earth, demolish captured castles. In a single year of maniacal activity and stunning hardship, Bruce reconquered two-thirds of Scotland and during the next five years he successively reduced almost all the major English fortresses north of the border. "On any showing," says Historian Barrow, "this must be reckoned one of the great military enterprises of British history...
Electronics companies are making printed circuits out of Teflon, which can be sliced to one two-thousandths of an inch. Teflon is used in barbecue gloves that will not scorch, in missile nose cones and in fireproof suits. Ovens and muffin tins are coated with Teflon, and a coating of Teflon is applied to some electric irons to make them slide more easily across cloth. Auto bearings, bushings and ball joints are now being made of Teflon, and engineers look for the day when they can use it to eliminate car lubrication. Surgeons are using Teflon tubing successfully to replace...