Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field, action against the Viet Cong has come to a virtual standstill. "This wrecks the Army's efforts against the Reds," said a senior U.S. intelligence officer. "They're too busy enforcing curfews to fight. How the Reds must be loving this." More than ever, Diem's government-or any other in South Viet Nam-depends on U.S. backing. Yet even if Washington should officially decide that Diem has become a liability in the fight against the Viet Cong, the U.S. will not support a change in government while the powers in Saigon are still settling accounts...
...looks like a Dodger year. But fans have a recurrent nightmare of the old New York Giants' Bobby Thomson homering away Brooklyn's hopes in the 1951 playoff, and the memory of last year's pitching collapse and the Dodgers' virtual abdication of the crown to the Giants is still fresh...
...ritualistic suicides brought to five the number of Buddhists who have turned themselves into human torches in further protest against the regime of South Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem. The government reacted by placing the Buddhist strong holds of Hué and Nhatrang under virtual martial law. Although worried that the burnings might get out of hand, Buddhist leaders defended the suicides as "noble sacrifices," were rounding up secular and military support...
...surprising that those pre-disposed to appose the treaty, or to be highly skeptical of its desirability, should have fixed upon issues of weaponry and strategy and turned to the military for support. The virtual assurance that violation would be detected, the right of withdrawal from the agreement, and the reassurances regarding inadvertant recognition of East Germany have made the argument about the scheming Red Russians seem somewhat rote and pointless, even to a few of the treaty's detractors...
...scheduled press conference and memorized the answers. At 3 p.m. on the appointed day, as the raspberry-red draperies parted in the Elysée Palace's gilt-encrusted Salle des Fetes, De Gaulle strode to the carpeted dais, and for the next 80 minutes delivered a virtual monologue to the assembled crowd of 900 correspondents, government officials and others...