Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arguments of the hawks, who advocate either total obliteration of everything that moves in North Viet Nam, military or civilian, or closing Hanoi's ports by bombing and mining. Total bombing, he said, would violate America's limited aims in the war. In addition, "short of virtual annihilation of North Viet Nam and its people," such bombing might very well not work...
...France to appear on radio and television and demand that Mobutu guarantee the safety of the 40,000 Belgians who live in the Congo. Otherwise, Harmel implied, Belgium would cut off its $70 million-a-year aid program and order its citizens home, a move that could mean the virtual col lapse of all the Congo's industries, communications and civil service...
...Weyand, the U.S. Area Commander: "For every day the road is closed, the price of rice in Saigon goes up 10 piasters [20]." In the past fortnight, the Viet Cong concentrated three hard-core battalions near Route 4 and mined the road eight times, bringing traffic to a virtual stop. The V.C. were obviously trying to push up food prices just as the presidential campaign began...
...season began. With a young team, it was easy for a winning attitude to develop, and Williams did not have to work any psychological miracles. When Boston went on a road trip and came back home with a 10-game winning streak, this winning attitude turned into a virtual mania...
Despite his reputation for short-fused pugnacity, ex-Marine Freeman tries to be coolly diplomatic on this score. He saw "no conspiracy," he said, but rather a growing sense of responsibility among white officials. One factor making Freeman so soft-spokenly cautious is the virtual control of Southerners over both the Senate and House agriculture committees. Another is the fact that the $195 million bill extending the Food Stamp Act was saved from a crippling amendment in the House last month by just eleven votes. Freeman obviously hopes to accomplish more by wooing Southern Congressmen than by warring with them...