Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Except for the dead, there was little sleep. Methodically, all day long, the Communists walked 82-mm. mortar shells, five and six at a time, back and forth across the paratroopers' perimeter. U.S. air and artillery blasted back. Waves of screaming jets swept over, searing and shearing the hilltop bunkers with fragmentation bombs, 750-lb. explosives and napalm canisters. The Communists were so securely shielded that they could be heard firing back even as the jets came in on them. When a group of troopers rushed a bunker and dropped eight grenades inside, a Communist appeared at its mouth...
...children received a cortisone-type hormone to reduce the inflammatory reaction against the transplant; when two showed severe infections, the drug was stopped. All except Carol Macourt have suffered paralysis of the right diaphragm. Three have had severe infections in the transplanted livers. One had to have part of the liver removed; two more still have open drains. Even so, said Surgeon Carl G. Groth, there is evidence that three of the transplanted livers are regenerating...
...poised with a lithe dancers grace, he told the buyers and press: "A woman today can be anything she wants to be a Gainsborough or a Reynolds or a Reynolds Wrap." Then came a preview of the provocative choices ahead. First was a series of simple knit dresses simple except for the clear vinyl bands that saucily bared the navel and the underslope of the bosom. Nor were the bathing suits that followed any letdown. Clear vinyl was at work again to make them the nudest since the topless...
Bravura Style. TV, in short, has brought a new and gripping dimension to war. Combat in living color is often wanting in perspective but rarely in impact. Neither those who control TV news nor those who watch it can fully determine its effect, except that it hits hard at the emotions. During World War II and the Korean conflict, Americans were largely left to imagine for themselves the scenes of war as recounted in the often melodramatic reports of broadcasting journalists. In the early days of the Viet Nam war, the carryover of this bravura style was evident...
...campaign, Harvard fell from the heights of Eastern hockey to a miserable 9-15 record, Coach Cooney Weiland's first dip below .500 in more than a decade. But Harvard was building. The last three freshman teams have been better than almost everyone except the following year's team (and this trend may be continued this winter...