Word: bays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of the political geography of the state, it is helpful to draw a line from Chicago northward 200 miles to Green Bay, home of football's world champion Packers. Bring the line southwest 125 miles to Madison, the clean capital and university center, and then back southeast 125 miles to Chicago again...
...rains were less kind to downtown Boston. Storrow Drive was buried under six feet of water when the Charles River in the Back Bay area overflowed...
...found a battalion of the enemy and killed 164. The Communists kept up their deadly tattoo of rocket and mortar attacks on allied bases and towns, inflicting "moderate" damage on the Danang airstrip in one attack and for the first time dropping shells into the center of Cam Ranh Bay, the U.S. base long considered the most impregnable bastion in Viet Nam and twice chosen for Viet Nam touch downs by Lyndon Johnson. The North Vietnamese also kept up their artillery pressure on the Marine garrison at Khe Sanh. One shell hit a troop-carrying C-123 circling to land...
...appearance in South Viet Nam nine months ago, and has since been used with increasing intensity. It is the Soviet-made, self-propelled 122-mm. rocket, whose seven-mile range has snatched every sanctuary away from the allies. The 122 has hit every major U.S. installation except Cam Ranh Bay at least once; its 42-lb. warhead has destroyed scores of parked U.S. planes, pockmarked runways from Danang to Tan Son Nhut. It has also been used against most cities, striking dread into the South Vietnamese. They denounce it as a terror weapon because, like most rockets...
...going to shake hands with you," said the Milton Mother in the purply-red suit. "You've turned our community upside down. I'm not going to shake hands with you." Edward J. McLaughlin, the general counsel for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, was embarrassed. An Irish blush washed his face, lapping the edges of his gray temples...