Word: tit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reported Le Monde: "The hidden intentions of the British can easily be guessed at. This was a fine opportunity to remind Europe of a period when France was the one who wouldn't play ring-around-the-rosy. The experts on perfidy are whispering that this was a tit-for-tat for a certain press conference [by De Gaulle in 1963] that closed the door of the Common Market against Albion...
...deadpan best to guess how things really would have turned out under Goldwater. To begin with, he wrote, "the Viet Cong would have blown up an American barracks. Goldwater would immediately call for a strike on military bases in North Viet Nam and announce a 'new tit-for-tat policy.' Democrats would make speeches that Goldwater was 'trigger-happy' and was trying to get us into a war with Red China...
...Goldwater would ignore the criticism and continue the raids, using not only Air Force bombers, but also jets from the U.S. Fleet. As time went on, he would explain that, instead of a 'tit-for-tat' policy, we now intended to bomb North Viet Nam in order to let Hanoi know that they could not support the Viet Cong without expecting retaliation...
Last week the President calmly but measurably stepped up the action in Viet Nam: he sent U.S. jets thundering across the 17th parallel, blasting North Viet Nam targets not on a tit-for-tat reprisal basis but in clear declaration of intent to continue striking north until Hanoi stops sending men and arms south. And at his order, two battalions of U.S. Marines-a total of 3,500 men -prepared to move into South Viet Nam to stiffen defenses around the big airbase at Danang...
...airbase perimeter. But with the stepped-up Viet Cong offensives throughout the country, especially around Bongson and Danang, even they may not be enough to keep the strategically vital northern third of the country from falling to Communist arms. The U.S. air strikes to the North -no longer tit-for-tat but now steady, measured assaults on Viet Cong supply lines-must be backed up by success on the ground within South Viet Nam if Washington's policy is to succeed. After all, hitting the North loses its meaning if the South falls...