Word: 32nd
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...seeded duo of Sands and Beren, ranked 32nd nationally, won in straight sets while Beckman and Scott needed three stanzas to dispose of their Ohio State opponents...
...second time that Marines were sent to the Lebanese capital Members of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit station the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean helped oversee the evacuation of 6,000 Palestine Liberation Organization guerillas August and earlier this month...
...Marines who disembarked in Beirut quickly took over the port area from the French units that had been there since the previous Saturday. First ashore was the flag-bearer, Lance Corporal James Dunaway, of Hattiesburg, Miss., followed by 200 men of Company E of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit. A Marine emblem pinned to his shirt, U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, who had negotiated the agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. that led to the Palestinians' withdrawal, stepped forward to greet Marine Colonel James Mead, commander of the volunteer force...
Even by the efficient standards of the South African military, the operation was brutal. After dawn, 43 heavily armed troops of South Africa's seasoned, mostly black 32nd Battalion were airlifted across the Namibian border into the rocky terrain of the Cambeno valley, some 15 miles away in the southwestern corner of Angola. Then, supported by helicopter gunships, they destroyed a secret, unfortified supply base manned by an estimated 250 guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). The toll: 201 guerrillas killed. Only three South African soldiers were lost...
...died, and having worked at five jobs in five years, Helms decided to go back home and make a normal life in North Carolina: build a house (a red brick quasi-colonial next door to his father-in-law), join the Rotary Club (chapter president), gab with the Masons (32nd degree, the second highest rank), and devote evenings to making popcorn with Dot and his daughters...