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Word: footings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jagged, spiny peaks on either side rise 5,000 ft. to 6,000 ft. and are covered with a triple-canopy jungle 100 ft. tall. Ever since a U.S. Special Forces camp was overrun in the valley in March of 1966, only furtive U.S. reconnaissance patrols have set foot in it. The North Vietnamese turned A Shau into a sanctuary and their greatest storehouse in I Corps. It became a key infiltration route from Laos and the Ho Chi Minh Trail to Hue and Danang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Fighting Pitch | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...over the campus. ("Brass buttons, blue coat, can't catch a nanny goat" goes the Harlem nursery rhyme.) I start to go off the campus but then remember to turn and walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure I've got the two I.D.'s necessary to get back into my college. I stare at the cops. They stare back and see a red armband and long hair and they perhaps tap their nightsticks...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

...wildest dreams--would ever have expected a finish in the Yale-Harvard golf match that could top last year's, when the Crimson's number seven man missed a two-foot put on the second hole of a playoff to give the Elis a 4-3 victory...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Yale Golfers Win on Breaks, 5-2 | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

Number three man Tom Wynne won a reprieve at 18 when his opponent. Jon Coles, missed a one-foot putt that would have won the Elis the match. At 19, however. Wynne had driving problems, bogeyed, and lost...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Yale Golfers Win on Breaks, 5-2 | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

...Crimson has not beaten Yale since 1957, and that victory was the first in more than 20 years. Last year, Harvard lost a horrible, heartbreaking match, 4-3, when the team's number seven man missed a two-foot putt on the second hole of a sudden death playoff...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Golfers Meet Elis at Yale | 5/8/1968 | See Source »

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