Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close with substantial numbers of Viet Cong. In hit-and-run guerrilla attacks, the Viet Cong are too often hard to get at; in larger units, they are usually no match for Allied forces. Last week, replenished and emboldened by the Tet truce, Communist ground forces came out to fight aggressively in unusual numbers. The results were predictable: when the smoke cleared, their thrusts had been blunted and they had lost more than 1,000 men, one of the highest tolls for a single week...
...then rushed in with flamethrowers. Korean Captain Chung Kyong Gin, 32, swiftly sent two squads to plug the holes in the wire, then set his men loose to kill the Reds trapped inside the perimeter. It was knife to knife and hand to hand-and in that sort of fighting the Koreans, with their deadly tae kwon do (a form of karate), are unbeatable. When the action stopped shortly after dawn, 104 enemy bodies lay within the wire, many of them eviscerated or brained. All told, 253 Reds were killed in the clash, while the Koreans lost only 15 dead...
Although he had not yet won his fight for tuition, Reagan could point to a theoretical saving for state taxpayers of more than $42 million, at no apparent loss in quality. University officials, however, insist that they will have to limit admissions next year to keep within the budget, which is still a matter of much controversy within the state. Reagan has been roundly denounced for his cost-trimming efforts-most notably by Cartoonist Bill Conrad of the Los Angeles Times (see cuts). Editorially, the Times has been cool to the Governor's tuition proposal, and to a budget...
...Indeed it was. However, the article did not discuss the early motion to limit severely the life and purpose of the group (I believe your reporter was not present at the time). After conceding that abuses existed in some departments, and regretting that those thus abused felt unable to fight sucessfully their own battles within their own departments, I moved that if a Federation of Teaching Fellows had to be formed, it should have a life of one calendar year and should exist for the sole purpose of canvassing every Teaching Fellow for his or her opinion of the situation...
...pole vault could be very close and very high. Steve Schoonover just can't quite seem to be able to clear 15 ft. He will fight it out up there on the ceiling with two Princeton men who have cleared 14 ft. 6 in. Yale has nothing...