Word: apartness
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Odessa, Texas is separated from Cambridge by fewer than 2,200 miles, but when it comes to football the two might as well be light years apart...
...moment of truth came very late one drunken freshman night in the bowels of the Straus C staircase. Like many freshman entryways, ours was torn apart by drama so petty that when it made us bawl we had to cry all over again just thinking about how stupid we were. On this night, Barrett and I happened to have a shared enemy...
...stood at a little distance from the crowd once we got to the bridge. Also, I wasn’t wearing a T-shirt and would have spoiled the pictures. They stood there in their matching T-shirts, clustered together to have a picture taken, and then broke apart again. They dangled a banner off the footbridge at the boats chuffing by on the Charles. They chanted a little more. And then—because there didn’t seem to be anything else to do—we all drifted back towards Winthrop House to have dinner...
Sweating it out in streets full of smoke and the odor of cordite, Purdy and his troops found cover in firing positions littered with flesh from insurgents blown apart by U.S. cannon fire from an armored vehicle. Pinned down by snipers, the men were trapped alongside the corpses, battling a stench that grew stronger as the morning wore on and the temperature climbed. When at last the platoon could move, it could do so only under the cover of chattering guns and multicolored smoke grenades. By then, the rebels that the platoon was fighting had simply melted away. "This enemy...
...have been--but for both sides. The scene in Samarra was similar to those anywhere in Iraq in which soldiers have had to shoot into cities. In one intersection, the body of a rebel lay in pieces, torn apart by 25-mm cannon fire, while a mother hurried by holding her toddler by the hand. The child stared at the remains. At one point, a group of Purdy's men tumbled into an Iraqi house seeking safety and found themselves facing a woman with her arms around five children. Figuring that the soldiers would not harm her family, she offered...