Word: basely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shifting his M16, had accidentally triggered a tracer round -almost certainly disclosing the team's position. Brown hung tough, hoping that the cross-wave of jungle echoes would confuse the enemy searchers. It did, and at dawn the team moved back in to hunt out the Viet Cong base camp...
Harvard came back in the bottom of the second to load the bases with no outs and no hits Lord and Joe O'Donnell walked, and Pete Karegeannes, trying to sacrifice, got on a B.U. error. Hall popped out, but second-baseman Dick Manchester drove in Lord on a suicide squeeze bunt down the third-base line...
Peters shut out the Terriers on two hits from then on, while his teammates finally got to Stipanovich in the seventh. Smith and Dan Hootstein the rightfielder playing in his last game for the Crimson, singled, and both advanced a base when Thornton had trouble picking up Hootstein's shot to left. They both scored on Lord's blast to center, and those two tallies proved to be the winning runs...
Once when I was doing my rounds on the base, I walked into an Air-borne barracks because all the shades were pulled down in the afternoon and there everyone was lying on their bunks sniffing the groovy air. There's an old saying that only two things come out of the air: birdshit and Air-borne--and personally, that's the way I feel about...
Every once in a while they'll have shakedown inspections at the bases. They'll go through every inch of the barracks. But the old generation does not really know how much of it there is and they don't know what to look for or where to look. So it's pretty easy to get away with. In fact, it's damn easy. When I was a sergeant in Texas, I had a room to myself and we used to have pot parties in my room in the barracks right in the middle of the army base...