Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity will play its first game on March 6 against 7th-seeded Army in Watson Rink. Last December the Crimson trounced the Cadets 5-1, but failed to score until mid-way in the second period. Several top Army icemen were not in the line-up, however...
Costly Battle. Next day 20 helicopters with U.S. pilots were kept busy jungle-hopping troops of the South Vietnamese 7th Division to build up an assault on the Viet Cong stronghold near Due Hoa. One helicopter crash-landed on a muddy pineapple field and was battered by Communist mortar and rifle fire, killing two Vietnamese soldiers and injuring three Americans, who set the helicopter afire to keep it out of Viet Cong hands. Said one hard-worked U.S. pilot: "It sounded like World War II out there." Even Saigon was not safe: on Christmas Day, a 26-year...
Information on trade and industry in Lydian kingdom of Croesus, in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., came from excavation of the Lydian bazaar in a great trench south of the modern highway. Heaps of ashes lying in a circle, moulds with bits of bronze, and actual bronze objects showed that large-scale bronze casting was carried...
...trained in the stealthy art of jungle warfare. During maneuvers, men of the 25th drill on techniques of getting along with native tribes, eat roots and insects served up by their buddies masquerading as witch doctors and chiefs. Dug in on the hillsides of Korea, the ist Cavalry and 7th Infantry divisions guard the battle-torn border...
...perfect natural prison, too small (three square miles) to permit unnoticed escape, too far from the nearest land (35 miles) to swim, Ustica is believed to have begun its penal history in the 7th century B.C., when mutinous Carthaginian soldiers were exiled there and starved until they ate each other. After the Carthaginians came Greek refugees and Phoenician exiles-and so on down the centuries. Mussolini banished thousands of political opponents to Ustica, often as many as 1,500 at a time; many were homosexuals who swished through the city streets in lipstick and silk pajamas, performed dances by night...