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...left the Javelin on British LCAs [landing craft assault]. It was pitch black, and the Channel was rough. The huge bluish-black waves rose high over the sides of our little craft and batted the boat with unimaginable fury. [The waves] broke our front ramp, and the boat began to fill with icy Channel water. The water reached my waist, and things looked black for us as our little boat began to sink. But the lieutenant rammed his body against the inner door of the ship and said, "Well, what the hell are you waiting for? Take off your helmets...
...helmet of one of the snipers and took aim, and later on, I found out, I got a bull's-eye on him. It was my only time that rifle fired--due to the bullet that hit my rifle. It must have shattered the wood, and the rifle broke in half, and I had to throw it away...
...anonymous member of the Cornell defensive unit who broke junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick’s hand
...said the employee, who voted for the strike authorization and against the contract. “Can you believe it? We’re getting one and a half percent and [Summers] is getting 32 percent increases? Here they are telling us ‘we’re broke, we have no money’ but there was plenty of money to go around for the University’s upper management. I really think that that’s what turned the tide...
...instincts and the steady hand of trainer John Servis produced something to be plenty proud of in Baltimore. Smarty broke from the gate and assumed the No. 2 position for much of the 1 3/16 mile race. At the far turn, Elliott stepped on the gas, then opened up a loping lead that looked almost too relaxed to be the blinding gallop it was. Can Smarty and Elliott do it again at the Belmont Stakes on June 5, or will they fold like Funny Cide, last year's darling, did? The man and his mount have done...