Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giap. Last week, after a lull of ten days, Giap resumed the offensive. The new Communist thrust was pure Giap-methodically prepared, lavish with firepower, and at an unexpected point. The U.S. and South Vietnamese commands had been awaiting attacks on Kontum or Hué. Instead, Giap once more drove on An Loc, the shell-torn rubber town near the Cambodian border, 60 miles north of Saigon. As usual, Giap's troops fought an almost medieval war of siege and attrition. North Vietnamese artillerymen rained some 7,000 shells and rockets on the ruined city during a 15-hour...
Savage fighting spread throughout the country. In the south, armed bands of Hutus seized control of the towns of Bururi and Rumonge and killed hundreds of Tutsi. On the shore of Lake Tanganyika, a force of 600 rebels occupied the town of Nyanza-Lac and drove off low-flying military planes with cascades of fire. "Everywhere," reported one pilot, "you see dead bodies...
After Kevin Hampe reached base on a fielder's choice, Tim Bilodeau walked and Joe Mackey delivered a pinch hit single to load the bases. Vince McGugan drove in two runs with a Texas Leaguer to right, and Toby Harvey and Larry Barbiaux drove in a run apiece with singles...
...over. It was just as well. Even with their marching orders, the boys bungled just about everything they had to do. They went to Washington to stalk their man, but they could not even find the union's national headquarters, where they were supposed to shoot him. They drove to Yablonski's home in Clarksville, Pa. When they went to the door, however, they found more people at home than they expected. Instead of firing, they asked Yablonski if he could find them jobs. They visited the house once again; this time finding nobody home, they made themselves...
...Barbiaux drove in the final Crimson run with a triple to the opposite field in the seventh inning...