Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first phase, which produced the battles of Loc Ninh and Dak To along the Cambodian border, was designed to draw American forces away from population centers and rural pacification areas and "force us," as Westmoreland said, "to dissipate our military strength." The second phase erupted in the past week's widespread attacks on population centers and military installations, aimed at rendering impotent for a time the U.S. ability to react quickly to the third-phase "main attack" against the Marines in northern Viet...
...isolated areas where they had little to gain and lives to lose. He did much the same thing to the French in 1952 and 1953. Last week's series of urban attacks was a radical departure, but it has some logic and some advantages. A major element in U.S. strength is mobility in the air; if enough damage could be done to airfields and aircraft, that element would be sharply reduced. Fighting inside cities also nullified much of the U.S. firepower; neither artillery nor heavy bombing could be employed to any widespread degree in allied populated areas...
...oeuf" position that won a gold medal in the downhill for Jean Vuarnet at Squaw Valley in 1960. He dressed them in slick nylon stretch suits instead of baggy trousers and tops, switched them from wood to more maneuverable metal skis, made training an intensive, year-round proposition, stressed strength and speed over the niceties of technique...
...House is made of plain rattan instead of exuberant Caribbean rococo, and it has only a couple of flowers instead of a whorish chorus line. But the story about Ottilie turning down rich Lord Jamison for poor Royal Bonaparte and the fluctuating fortunes of Madame Fleur has neither the strength nor the wit to profit by this scaled-down production. Arlen's charm-marinated score-which includes a rousing new wedding number called Jump de Broom-gains nothing from small voices onstage and a five-piece combo in the orchestra pit. Yolande Bavan as Ottilie is as pretty...
...both National Provincial and Westminster expect to reduce the heavy but inevitable cost of converting to fully computerized accounting. The two banks should make a good fit. Westminster, headed by Chairman Duncan Stirling and Chief General Manager Ralph Elliott, has concentrated on personal and professional accounts, has its main strength in London and southern England. National Provincial, led by Chairman David Robarts and Chief General Manager William Davidson, has stressed industrial accounts and expansion in the Midlands and northern England. And British banking's belated reach for efficiency seems likely to bring more mergers soon. Lloyd's Bank...