Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capacity, 30% of its rail system, half of its air force, 3,000 trucks, 4,000 watercraft and one-fifth of all men and materiel headed for infiltration into the South. McNamara further claims that 400,000 to 500,000 North Vietnamese have had to be diverted to repair bomb damage...
King of Hearts. Provincial France. World War I. Retreating Germans plant a time bomb in a town square, preparing to explode it at midnight when Allied troops arrive. To foil the Boche plan, a Scottish regiment sends in a wide-eyed private (Alan Bates), who finds the town empty save for the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Spilling out of their bin and into the town, they find an abandoned circus with enough period costumes to outfit nine road companies of Marat-Sade...
...Victory freighter, was steaming west-northwesterly at five knots, about 14 nautical miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Seconds later, lookouts sighted jet fighters bearing in from the southeast at 7,000 ft. A rocket slammed into Liberty's port side amidships, igniting two 55-gal. gasoline drums; a bomb struck the starboard side. The planes, sweeping down in teams of two or more, raked the ship with crisscross rocket and machine-gun fire, riddling hull and superstructure with 821 hits...
Practice Pays. So much for history. Aiming his serves like a golfer lining up putts, Charlito blasted Santana with "the Bomb," kept him unmercifully on the run with delicate lobs and volleys, swept the first two sets 10-8, 6-3. Rain interrupted the match for 15 minutes, and the Spaniard, refreshed, took the third set 6-2. Then Pasarell dug in. He broke Santana's serve with a booming forehand in the 13th game of the fourth set and ran out the match...
...came close to matching the upset engineered by a 23-year-old Puerto Rican named Charles Pasarell. Son of a wealthy Santurce businessman, "Charlito" Pasarell is the reigning U.S. indoor champion, the No.3-ranked player in the nation, and the possessor of a big serve that he boldly calls "the Bomb." Yet Pasarell's game is as erratic as it is flashy. "I've beaten just about everybody in the world," he admits, "but I've been beaten by just about everybody too." He was not even named to the 1967 U.S. Davis Cup team, and the officials...