Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unless I can't get into a reserve unit and have to play for Uncle Sam," Lord said, "the Cowboys will try me at tight end, safety, and outside linebacker...
...very history of the war suggests that the United States is not winning, indeed, might well be losing. He pointed out that the fighting takes place during the dry season, the winter months for us, November through April. For the rest of the year, he said everyone just sits tight and holds on to what they have and hopes not to be washed away by the flood...
...next year, the winter of 1966-67, during the dry season the U.S. had some 400,000 troops on the ground, yet was able to launch an offensive action in only the I Corps area. In the other three areas they were on the defensive, or holding tight. He said that in the winter of 1967-68, the United States forces with over 500,000 men on the ground, were unable to launch an offensive in any single of the four corps areas. Indeed, he said, to the contrary his own forces, stronger than they had been before, were able...
...some supplies, this hardly explains why two U.S. divisions patrol one third the length of the 38th parallel armistice line. The need for greater flexibility in our allied bonds is the clearest lesson of the Vietnamese mess. Vance's mission, however, ties an ostentatious knot in an unnecessarily tight U.S. commitment...
...trying to pull the plugs of the projectors; others tried to get their hands on the organizers. "We were very close to physical violence," recalls Lloyd-Jones. "Instead of getting angry at the war, they got mad at us. We didn't expect they would be so up-tight," said Peterson...