Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half, the slick Sowley made a couple of acrobatic receptions, the first setting up a 36-yard Klebanoff field goal. Midway through the fourth period, Yale notched its final score on Ron Kell's one-yard burst. Sowley turned in a key 24-yard one-handed reception in that drive to put the ball at the Harvard...
...dark and windy. Scuttling northwest from the ancient Buddhist capital of Hue, the two helicopters were above effective small-arms range as they followed the stretch of Vietnamese coast known as "The Street Without Joy." All at once the lead chopper erupted in a burst of fire and smoke, then crashed on its back in a flooded paddyfield, carrying five men to death. Whether the Dong Ha bound Huey was destroyed by Communist gunfire, sabotage or a freak accident may never be known, though Hanoi was quick to crow that its gunners had downed the bird. What was known...
...home and the boys overseas were equally lonely, equally sentimental," writes Simon. "The time was ripe for the singers, with their more personalized messages. In December 1946, almost a dozen years after Benny Goodman had blown the first signs of life into the big-band bubble, that bubble burst. Inside of a few weeks, eight of the nation's top bands broke up. The world that was once theirs now became the property of their most illustrious graduates-the singers...
...Butter melt away, a fat boy in a blue pull-over sweater strolls on stage with a hand-mike. His introduction is an endless chain of bad jokes that is finally interrupted when Chuck Berry steps awkwardly on stage. This time the applause is polite, if only a burst of relief...
...burst of second-half energy brought Harvard's rugby club to an 8-8 tie with Princeton Saturday, despite a defensive, disorganized start...