Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hood; his only contacts with the outside were his radio and his instruments. In the front seat sat his instructor, Captain Thomas Coryell, 29, charged with keeping an alert for other aircraft while his student practiced. At 8:28. Pilot Moran called the control tower at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas to report that he would now begin a "jet penetration," a procedural dive to 14.000 ft.; he headed down at about 280 knots...
Since 1951, for example, the U.S. has negotiated more than 40 status-of-forces agreements granting friendly nations primary legal jurisdiction over American servicemen overseas who commit off-duty, off-base violations of law. The host nations guarantee each G.I. the basic rights of U.S. justice (e.g., a fair trial), but not the U.S. forms for securing those rights (e.g.., trial by jury). The status-of-forces agreements cover some 14,000 cases a year without bruising the U.S. sense of justice. They received dramatic confirmation last year in the case of Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard...
Martin's shutout was saved three times by double plays, with Martin himself involved in two of them. The game was primarily a pitchers' duel, with Northeastern limited to only three hits and Crimson batsmen garnering seven safeties off Northeastern pitchers. The Yardlings left seven on base, while the Huskies stranded eleven...
...walk and a hit batsman put runners on first and second with nobody out, and when Tom Bergantino could not handle Fred Beckett's grounder to third, the bases were loaded. John Quinlan and Mike Dvorchak slapped out a pair of singles scoring three runs and sending Emmet to the showers with the score 5 to 4 and the tying and tie-breaking runs on base...
Byron Johnson came on in relief only to be greeted by a scorching line drive down the third base line which Bergantino speared. In the fourth inning, Erickson had blasted a home run into the deepest reaches of left field...