Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American soldier is as deadly a foe today as he was in the Pacific jungles and islands of World War II. And, as another, less-noticed measure of the nation's wider and deeper involvement in Viet Nam's war, the four-year toll of American lives lost in combat passed the 1,000 mark...
...Taboo. In one of the biggest battles yet mounted by U.S. forces, paratroopers and helicopter-borne troops of the elite 173rd Airborne Brigade plunged into eight hours of furious hand-to-hand combat with screaming, cymbal-clashing Viet Cong guerrillas 30 miles northeast of Saigon. The toll of Red dead may have reached 600. Three days later, in jungles controlled by the Communists for 20 years, a battalion of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division repelled scores of attacking Viet Cong, killed at least 150 before the assault was broken. At the coastal town of Chu Lai, U.S. Marines, backed...
...Blunted & Defeated." The intensified U.S. role in Viet Nam did not come cheaply. In the first week of November alone, 70 Americans died, the highest seven-day U.S. toll since the American entry into the war eleven years ago. Yet the results continued to be encouraging. After meeting with President Johnson last week, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara told reporters: "The South Vietnamese, with our help, have blunted and defeated the Viet Cong monsoon offensive, and the Viet Cong have paid a very heavy price indeed...
Repealing the Toll. Singer arrived at Scripto during a crisis year in which profits plummeted 49%. Sluggish capi tal spending, vacillating management and a reluctance to diversify were taking a heavy toll. Singer, who tried his hand briefly as a guard for a profession al basketball team after dropping out of William and Mary in 1936, had just completed four years as president of Chicago's mattress-making Sealy Inc., where he boosted annual sales from $56 million to $81 million. As he saw it, Scripto's problem was divided into two parts. First he concentrated on management...
Then the cold set in, the Jets' lead became insuperable, the drinks took their toll, and small bands of lecherous middle-aged men broke into smiles as the pompoms waved, hips swung, and carts wheeled...