Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running from the Demilitarized Zone in the North to within 100 miles of Saigon. It also has refurbished twelve former U.S. airfields and set up SA-2 missile sites around the former U.S. Marine airfield at Khe Sanh. Though Saigon's forces have acquitted themselves well in com bat in the past year, they have not been able to prevent the Communists from destroying bridges, blockading key arteries, attacking outposts and terrorizing local officials. Hanoi's forces have come close to cutting South Viet Nam in half at the Central Highlands, and have threatened the precious rice harvest...
...left, he hit for Notre Dame's twelfth straight-and winning-point. With six sec. left, and the score 71-70, U.C.L.A. had three more chances to save the game. But Walton was wide with a short jumper and neither Forward Pete Trgovich nor Meyers could bat the ball in. The Bruins will have a chance for revenge in Los Angeles this Saturday, but for the moment, Notre Dame...
...come a long way. In 1960, we had Like and Khruschev, Kennedy and Nixon. That year, in the last at-bat of a long career, Ted Williams hit a home run over Fenway's center field wall. A dose of cynicism was exactly what we needed. Rhetorical questions deserved good old Jewish common-sense answers...
There is much more to Kieu than escapist melodrama. Written by a renowned Vietnamese classicist named Nguyen Du (1766-1820), the poem in Vietnamese has a wide range of wordplay. The meter is a flowing iambic called luk-bat, full of rhyming and nearly as easy to memorize as a song. Much of this is unavoidably lost in the otherwise excellent English translation by Huynh Sanh Thong, a Vietnamese scholar who has lived in the U.S. all his adult life. Jaded Western readers who may find Kieu's plight unconvincing can still enjoy the poem for its language, especially...
...Loyal Park success at bat...