Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well over 5,000 U.S. Marines oppose Giap in the base camp of Khe Sanh, elbow to elbow in their bunkers and trenches inside a perimeter only half a mile wide. But U.S. units numbering 40,000 men support the Marines within reinforcing range, with all the massed artillery and air power that Westmoreland and the Joint Chiefs of Staff believe are needed to defend the Marines. In the past ten days alone, B-52s have averaged four strikes daily on the Red-held hills around Khe Sanh...
...supplying Khe Sanh, but Route 1, which connects with Khe Sanh via Route 9, is the best, and will thus not be left gladly in enemy hands. One of Giap's aims in his general offensive is to stretch U.S. lines?and U.S. troop deployments?as thin and as wide as he can, forcing General Westmoreland to make difficult choices of priority...
Under the Sea. Even finding the missing subs proved impossible. Dozens of planes and ships equipped with radar and sonar sounding devices searched wide stretches of the Mediterranean without success. They found bits of debris and oil slicks, which are common in busy sea lanes, but analysis failed to link the findings with either the Dakar or Minerve. When the oxygen reserves of the two vessels were exhausted three to four days later, hopes for saving the 121 crewmen were abandoned...
...have led experimenters to speculate that primitive life could exist in the Jovian atmosphere, the discharges created large quantities of a translucent, ruby-red organic dye. This dye, the scientists speculate, may well explain the mark on Jupiter's surface, 30,000 miles long and 8,000 miles wide, that astronomers call the Great Red Spot...
...widely agreed that British Motors did not make the most of modern market research as it continued to turn out a wide variety of cars with various emblems and idiosyncrasies. A believer in loose "federal" management of different lines, Sir George missed the benefits of intensive production of big-volume sellers, and many of his models aged noticeably as competitors catered to changing public tastes...