Word: 25th
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...deaths of those six Marine snipers outside the Euphrates River town of Haditha, 150 miles northwest of Baghdad in the trouble-plagued Anbar province, was only the start of a terrible week for Lima Company of 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. Two days later, 14 Marines, nine from that outfit, were killed by a triple-strength antitank bomb that flipped their amphibious assault vehicle into the air, igniting the fuel and ammunition inside and incinerating all but one of the occupants. The two attacks brought the death toll for U.S. troops to 29 in the space of a week and served...
...particularly the way it happened, and after 56 games with the Sox over two years and what?s already happened this season-it?s all about us. There?s no one but us. I told my friend Stan on the train the other day, ?It?s gonna be September 25th, we?re gonna be arguing here about one another-Giambi and Foulke-and then we?re gonna turn to the sports pages and find out we?ve both just been mathematically eliminated by Toronto...
...muttering. "It's a unique place," he says without detectable irony. "The support I've gotten has just been unbelievable. I love the place and I love the people." And, as long as he is definitely leaving, they are of a mind now to love him too. Immediately, a 25th Notre Dame football coach, Lou Holtz, was anointed, the hiring telegraphed by a suggestive escape clause in his University of Minnesota contract and the presence of a son on the Irish campus. Formerly of William and Mary, North Carolina State, the University of Arkansas and even the New York Jets...
...raconteur of U.S. small-town foibles on radio's A Prairie Home Companion and in his phenomenal best seller (1,064,000 copies) Lake Wobegon Days; and Ulla Skaerved, 42, Danish former exchange student in Keillor's Minnesota high school class of 1960, whom he met again at a 25th reunion last summer; both for the second time; in Holte, Denmark...
...president of my church had not called me on the 25th of May, we would not be here,” Clark said at the press conference...