Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert McNamara with the grim prognosis of peril. When Johnson announced his decision, it was the most significant for American foreign policy since the Korean War: "We will stand in Viet Nam." To stand meant in fact that the U.S. would go to Viet Nam in overwhelming force and stay until the job was done. Why? "If we are driven from the field in Viet Nam," the President told the nation and the world, "then no nation can ever again have the same confidence in American promise or in American protection...
Building to Stay. If "the golf course" is a triumph of sweat and ingenuity, Cam Ranh Bay, abuilding 190 miles north of Saigon, is the manifesto of American engineering. Fifteen miles long, five miles wide, deep enough for any ocean vessel, rimmed by smooth, sun-blanched beaches, Cam Ranh Bay was probably the world's most underdeveloped great natural harbor. Until, that is, four months ago-when the 4,000 men of the 35th Engineer Group went to work...
...increase. Eventually, Cam Ranh's facilities will be able to store 45 days' supply for all the U.S. forces in Central Viet Nam. As much as any single installation in Viet Nam, Cam Ranh is concrete and steel testimony that the U.S. is in Southeast Asia to stay...
...First Team were out to clear "Happy Valley" next door to the west, while Vietnamese marines and army battalions closed in from the coast. But as all too often in the frustrating war, there was virtually nobody home. Even where the enemy is decisively smashed, unless allied troops stay, the V.C. soon slip back...
...gossip was inspired. "I came to know Proust during the War: dirty, untidy, with a voice like a peacock. His conversations were like his letters, interminable explanations of why he could not stay longer. He had an absolutely oily timidity, and made a great show of aplomb which was entirely secondhand...