Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patrick, who holds the world indoor record in the 880, ran a spectacular 1:49.1 anchor leg, but failed to catch McKelvey at the tape...
Villanova's depth-laden team streaked to victories in two relay events. In the mile relay, which clinched the team title for Villanova, the Wildcat foursome set a meet record of 3:14.4. Villanova also captured the distance medley relay thanks to a brilliant mile anchor leg by Frank Murphy...
...ships found the Cuban ship dead in the water about ten miles offshore, with its anchor dragging and the four crewmen on deck. When they sighted the U.S. ships, three of the men immediately jumped into a lifeboat and began rowing toward the cutter. Suddenly, a dozen men burst onto the deck of the 26 de Julio. With the ship's anchor still dragging, they got up power and headed the ship toward the lifeboat. They missed on the first pass, but swung around again and came close enough to dump two of the lifeboat's occupants into...
Adams, on the other hand, has improved. A tough man in a tight spot, he was tapped by Harvard coach Bill Brooks as anchor man for the crucial final relay against Princeton. He also won the 1000-yard freestyle that day and placed second in the 100 free...
...camp when they came under heavy enemy attack and had to retreat. In a way, the entire northern edge of South Viet Nam has come under the same sort of siege. Allied strength is clustered in pockets of outposts or in major cities-from Khe Sanh, the western anchor, through the Rockpile, Camp Carroll and Con Thien to Quang Tri city, Hué and Danang. Few of the allied bases are accessible now except by air. Last week the North Vietnamese infiltrated a fresh division into South Viet Nam, bringing to 50,000 their troop concentration in 1 Corps. Enemy...