Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...canyon, the red-and-white chopper hovers into view. Right ahead of it, seven majestic mustangs pirouette across a low ridge, chest-high in the sage, kicking contrails of acrid dust in their wake. It is their last moment of freedom. An airborne chase that began miles and ridges ago is about...
Then they hurried back onto the chopper to lift off for Andrews Air Force Base. Looking down at the White House, Nixon, struggling to break the ice, said, "I kind of like that house down there, don't you?" Old angers and hatreds were beginning to fall away...
Muller saw combat the day he arrived in Viet Nam. "I got off the chopper, walked down the trail, and immediately saw bodies," he recalls. "Suddenly, the reality of war was driven home." Less than a year later, while trying to lead a company of reluctant Vietnamese soldiers up a hill near Con Thien, he was struck in the chest by a Viet Cong bullet that severed his spine...
Brown didn't miss his heat. After allowing back-to-back first-inning singles, the fireballer tamed the Tigers with an clusive slider and sailing hard stuff that made up in movement for what it lacked in velocity. Mark Lockenmeyer's fourth-inning infield chopper was Princeton's only other safety...
...Royals got one back in the sixth as Amos Otis lead off with a single. After a walk, Willie Mays Aikens hit a high chopper to Trillo. The second baseman hurried the throw to first, which flew by Pete Rose allowing Otis to score...