Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pier near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30-mile length of the Long Tau channel, which links Saigon and the sea, a Viet Cong frogman had attached a 100-lb. charge to the vessel's anchor chain. Damage was minor: one compartment was ruptured, but the jet fuel inside did not ignite...
Scoring leaders Phil Kydes and Russ Bell, who each tallied two against Tufts, will lead the offensive line while George Gibson and Larry Anderson anchor the defense from the goal...
Peter Bogovich will anchor the line at center forward and Captain Scott Robertson and Gerry Montero will be at the wings...
...obviously linking them directly with Big Brother, they clearly dominated last week's Republican Convention-and the men they interviewed knew it. They had no hesitation in cutting off, say, Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke in mid-thought with an authoritative "Excuse me, there is a signal from the anchor desk." From the Olympus of air-conditioned booths cantilevered above the convention floor, their colleagues, the TV pundits, looked down on the delegates with detachment and sometimes disdain, commenting with urbane coolness on the proceedings...
...field men when he thought they did not question pungently enough. He got off his share of quips. He correctly forecast, for example, that the nominating speech for Senator Hiram Fong "will tell us more than we want to know about Hawaii." And, in 35 hours on the anchor watch, Cronkite committed only one embarrassing blooper by confusing Crooner Tony Martin with Tony Bennett...