Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They argue that for all the Allied success in search-and-kill forays against the Communists, victories over the enemy's main-force military units are like pushing water up the side of a bowl. The moment the mailed fist of U.S. power is withdrawn to search out the enemy elsewhere, the water, meaning the Red control of the countryside, runs back. Pacification efforts have largely failed in rural areas because there are not enough Allied troops to leave behind to provide a permanent shield behind which civilian teams can reclaim the peasants for the government. Even should negotiations...
...public education system, which has thrown them-out into the economy without the ability to make a decent living, the army should put more of these men through remedial training; it should use them for military purposes, but "incidentally equipping them with the skills and attitudes" necessary for success...
...Institute, Gordon was to play what Barney Frank called a "double-agent role with the consent of both sides." He was always on good speaking terms with Ansara (and therefore privy to most of SDS's plans), but his primary purpose was to protect the Institute and insure the success of its program. There was a good reason why he should have been partial to the Institute: Gordon himself had worked out the framework for the Institute's undergraduate activities during the previous year...
...performance was rhythmically vital from the beginning, and built steadily to the end. Hathaway did seem to be rushing the orchestra at many phrase-endings, providing no relaxation or feeling of settling before continuing, but still the Haydn was a success. The entire concert was a credit to the ability and versatility of the Bach Society...
...conceivable that Pete Doherty can rip Princeton's secondary with passes -- and undoubtedly he will try--but without halfback Calvin Hill, Yale's offense will probably meet with only limited success against the increasingly rugged Tiger line...