Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American pilots who in one year have forged a brilliantly successful new tactical role for air power over Viet Nam, showed last week that the U.S. can indeed succeed. On the ground, American fighting men are not only taking on wily veterans of guerrilla warfare but are also inflicting losses that no foe can afford to take indefinitely. Yet in the long run, the kind of success envisaged by the President can be earned only by the nation that is most determined to win-at any price. The time for magnanimity, as the U.S. finally made clear last week...
...Cloud Nine." The more than 100 airmen who got home were rhapsodic over their success in hitting targets that they have long ached to obliterate. When the nuclear-powered Enterprise finished an eight-month spell on Yankee Station off North Viet Nam in June, a squadron commander noted that the ship had launched more strike missions than any other carrier in a comparable period. Yet, he added ruefully, "we just haven't done the job we could have." Said a diplomat in Saigon: "How would you feel if you" were a pilot in the best air force...
...full-time members. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, U.S. General Lyman Lemnitzer, issued a heartfelt order of the day to the 2,400 departing French troops, expressing the West's "appreciation for your most valuable service in the past and my sincere hopes for your future success." Simultaneously, Lemnitzer was complying with another deadline: De Gaulle's demand that U.S. forces leave France by next April. U.S. Air Force Colonel Harold Fulmer, flying the first American planes and equipment (mostly desks) from the 27-year-old French airbase of Evreux to the new NATO station at Mildenhall, England...
...honoring it another. Twice in the past three years similar truces vanished in the hot, humid air because both sides could not agree on the fine print. Though the new agreement goes into more detail than the older truces, only time will tell whether it has a chance of success...
...Khrushchev. Another possibility is the theater of cruelty, a kind of sauna bath of the senses, designed to leave playgoers shocked and tingling at every emotional pore. British Director Peter Brook masterminded Broadway's full-length initiation into the theater of cruelty, this season's surprise smash success, Marat/ Sade...