Word: blew
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...Pleiku in February. Eight Americans died, 125 were wounded. "I've had enough of this," raged the President. Next day, scores of U.S. Navy jets roared beyond the 17th parallel for the first time to plaster "bloodless" military installations in North Viet Nam. In return, the Viet Cong blew up a U.S. enlisted men's billet in the port city of Qui Nhon. This time the U.S. and South Viet Nam replied with a joint 160-plane raid...
Harvard's game against Tufts was the third this year which the Crimson blew in the last ten seconds of play -- and by far the most agonizing. Thanks to Barry Williams' best shooting performance of the year, Harvard led throughout the first half. Tufts battled back gamely to pull in front, 70 to 63, and then the Crimson unleashed its full-court press to even up the game...
...Delicate Balance. On the day of the successful rendezvous, however, the fog that had shrouded Cape Kennedy during the night-and the cloud that had hovered over Gemini 6 even longer -suddenly blew away. "For the third time, go," exulted Schirra just before the Titan II left the pad in a launch that was as close to perfect as any in all the Cape's history...
...yard medley relay, Coach Bill Brooks must have known it would be a long afternoon. Captain Bruce Fowler glided through the fastest 100-yard breaststroke of his life in 1:01.1 and butterflyer Neville Hayes churned through his leg in a surprising 54.1 seconds, but the Crimson blew their lead anyway on the last leg. From then on, it was a romp for Navy...
Much of the Viet Cong terrorism in recent months has been aimed at South Viet Nam's national police, the canh sat. In one attack last week the raiders blew up the canh sat headquarters in Hien Nhon. In another, at Long An, raiders smashed a police checkpoint, killing three police. The enemy has good reason to try to cripple the cops. For the Vietnamese in the white uniforms do not handle only the usual policeman's lot of random robbery and mayhem. More and more, they are meeting the guerrillas face to face. "What is the guerrilla...