Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raising the Flag. While Communist main forces lie low, the allies are pushing the war as hard as possible. Bombing of supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos has increased since the bombing halt over North Viet Nam. Hundreds of ground patrols stab out daily to find and fix Communist forces and bring them to battle. The allied pacification effort has been accelerated, with the aim of hoisting as many yellow-and-red South Vietnamese flags as possible before any cease-fire might freeze territorial claims. Saigon wants to add no fewer than 1,000 hamlets...
...merchants and residents, White slapped a curfew on the Common. Night after night, there were dozens of arrests. Some nights, there was violence. One of those nights, Morea got embroiled in a massive street fight, was found holding a knife when the police came, and was charged with stabbing a man whom he claims he did not stab. He faces trial in Boston next week...
Combat makes a stab or two at humor: But for the most part, Combat lacks the wit that is the distinguishing-and redeeming-feature of its parent publication, National Review. Combat makes its debut at a rather advantageous time, when right-wing and anti-Communist sentiment appears to be on the rise in the U.S. Even so, it seems a bit superfluous. Ideology of the right is amply available in the Review; news of the rampaging radicals is generously covered in the daily press. Combat will have to unearth a lot more interesting subversives to be worth $24 a year...
...newsmen? Because Salan only took up arms and the newsmen are asking for free speech. Speech is De Gaulle's special domain. One must not forget that he carried out his hardest campaigns and his most brilliant successes over the air. To touch his microphone is to stab at his heart...
...Ammo facetiously suggests registering the genitals of all American males, since there are so many rapes in the U.S.) Still, nothing else can translate a fleeting murderous impulse into action more efficiently or finally than a gun. There is no need for contact, none of the effort required to stab or bludgeon a human being...