Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists, America's worst enemy in Viet Nam has been American official optimism. Years of miserable stalemate have been accompanied by overblown pronouncements from Saigon and Washington about how well the war was going. Credibility gapped in the Johnson Administration, when cant phrases like "turning the corner in Viet Nam" and "light at the end of the tunnel" became bitter jokes. In recent months, however, U.S. officials-backed by scattered reports from perennially skeptical journalists -have cautiously begun to spread word that the situation on the ground in Viet Nam looks better than it has at any time since...
...into spray-spewing somersaults; others slammed sickeningly into the treacherous shoals bordering the course. Bill Petty of Wapakoneta, Ohio, driving a deep-vee hull powered by triple Mercury engines, jumped into the lead, held it for 1½ hours, then shrieked into a turn at 70 m.p.h., cut the corner too close and grazed the bottom. The mistake cost him two propellers and part of one engine. Incredibly, Mercury's six-man pit crew repaired the damage in barely 20 minutes. But by then it was too late. Outboard Marine's Cesare Scotti, a tough little Italian marina...
...yurt a circular wood hut modeled after a Mongol hut made of skins. The first yurt, built last Fall in the Radcliffe Yard, was displaced by the new Education School library. The present yurt is safely located near the corner of Garden St. and Appian Way and differs from the last yurt in having a sod-covered roof...
ANYBODY WHO'S lived in a ghetto will tell you that what's happening to the Panthers is what's happening to black people all over the country. You turn a corner a little too fast and you feel a bullet in your back. And it's been happening to the Panthers since they started. The day they didn't send Hucy to the chair, two cops, armed, on duty, in a marked police car, drove by the Oakland Panther office and fired fifteen shells into the building. No one was hurt and so the cops were told to watch...
...preserve their non-pro status, all the Harvard team-members had to give their pay, which would have been about $100 each, to charity. But at least they get to show off on film. I expect if I am lucky I might see my glove waving in the corner of a rousing-cheer scene, or perhaps the end of the Harvard scarf that was handed out to me (and carefully collected...