Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been a "humbling experience" for the U.S., the somewhat dovish Chicago Daily News declared that they also bore a "message" that should not be missed in the "shock over the sight of blood." The "image of the enemy" said the News, "has altered from that of one stubborn but perhaps amenable to negotiation to that of one arrogantly confident he can smash the American will to fight. President Johnson was right in saying that it is not so much our power as our will and our character that are being tested here, and character starts with a strong stomach...
...Independence Palace, the reply was a hail of fire. Retreating across the streets, the Communists took up positions in a half-completed hotel, killed the first two Jeep loads of U.S. MPs who raced to the scene and commandeered their M-60 machine gun. In a pattern of stubborn pocket resistance to be repeated throughout Viet Nam, it took two days to shoot the Viet Cong out of the hotel...
...week's end, Saigon was still a city shuddering with the roar of bombs and the splat of bullets. After five days of fighting, the stubborn attackers of Tan Son Nhut airstrip were still entrenched near the field as F-100 jets, Skyraiders and helicopters blasted at their positions. Fighting flared in one part of the city and, when troops moved in with air support to damp it down, broke out in another area. Though the allies claimed 2,000 enemy dead in the city, the U.S. command was worried by the presence of a reserve unit of some...
...when the money is on the line, there is still no tougher team in all of sport. Two weeks ago, the Packers whipped a young, aggressive Los Angeles Rams club 28-7 to win the N.F.L.'s Western Conference title, and last week they subdued the stubborn Dallas Cowboys 21-17 to capture their third straight league championship...
...went according to the polls was the Rose Bowl, and even that took a remarkable performance by All-America Halfback O. J. Simpson (who carried the ball 25 times for 128 yds. and two touchdowns) before top-ranked Southern Cal could eke out a 14-3 victory over a stubborn band of sophomores from Indiana. In the Sugar Bowl, thrice-beaten, unranked Louisiana State spotted unbeaten, No. 6-ranked Wyoming a 13-0 halftime lead, then bounced back to win 20-13. In the Orange Bowl, No. 3-ranked Oklahoma beat No. 2-ranked Tennessee 26-24. The most startling...