Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into six groups, each commanded by a North Korean army captain, the assassination team members had trained for two years in guerrilla-warfare tactics, then practiced their assignment for 15 days in a mock-up model of the Blue House erected in their base at Wonsan. Setting out on foot to slip through the snowy DMZ, each of the 31 wore an overcoat, black sneakers and a woollen winter cap and carried 66 lbs. of equipment, including a submachine gun, a pistol, a dagger, eight hand grenades and one antitank grenade...
...Vellucci took the floor to say that Hayes' speech "sounded like an oration delivered by Castro from Havana, Cuba." He recalled Hayes' vote of two years ago to "bounce out an honourable man" (former City Manager John J. Curry '19) and concluded "Now the shoe is on the other foot...
Steve Schoonover cleared 15'6" in the pole vault but missed at 16' 1" as Bob Seagren went on to a 17-foot vault. The Harvard freshmen beat B.C., UMass, and Holy Cross in a mile relay and Exeter topped Andover for the fourth straight year...
...merely delivered a state-of-the-campaign address. Other non-developments materialized on cue. On opening day, the Senate bickered over whether to admit to the record an antiwar petition by Jeanette Rankin, 87, a former Congresswoman from Montana, who led 3,200 protesting women to the snowy foot of Capitol Hill. It took a roll-call vote to uphold the tradition of delaying such "business" until after hearing the President...
...with the other networks. Yet its games averaged 17 million viewers v. NBC's 9,000,000 and ABC's 6,300,000. The reason is simply that CBS outbid the competition for the established, sure-draw National Football League, while NBC settled for the newer American Foot ball League and ABC was left with college games...