Word: balling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours U.S. soldiers in and around Dak To cowered in their bunkers while tracer bullets arced in all directions, flares popped like fireworks and shells exploded. Seven tons of C-4 plastic explosive went off simultaneously, producing the largest blast of the Viet Nam war. A 1,000-ft. ball of fire shot upward, lighting the whole valley and billowing into a mushroom cloud. The shock wave knocked men off their feet half a mile away and all but destroyed the Special Forces camp. Astonishingly, no one was killed, and only three men were injured in the holocaust...
Bogovich, whose effectiveness was minimized by Brown's rough three-back defense, flipped a short shot over the outrushing goalie at 12:29 of the opening period. Gomez and left wing John Runyan carred the ball into Brown's zone much of the game, but Harvard had only its one-goal lead to protect until the final minutes...
...Hill, in motion to the right. Yale's star halfback galloped toward the sideline, pursued by five Princeton men. Dowling streaked down the opposite side of the field, with a three-step lead on the defensive safety. Hill stopped, turned, and launched a bomb to Dowling, who grabbed the ball on Princeton's 38 and took it all the way home...
...America's great war poet, because he was writing about a different set of realities with the same kind of immediacy. He wrote then too on conventional themes, but extraordinarily well--the loneliness of the individual soldier, the bursts of sudden violence. His much anthologized "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," ends, "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose...
...first time, early in the second period, a fierce pass rush induced Phillips to throw the ball away, and the second time deBettencourt collared Phillips for a two yard loss on fourth and four from the Harvard...