Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrow. Hill 861 is the tip, aimed east into the heart of troubled Quang Tri province, around which some 35,000 Communist troops are drawn. Hill 881 North and Hill 881 South form the arrow's flukes. An area of choice coffee plantations and twelve-foot-high elephant grass, the Khe Sanh Valley was defended by a company of U.S. Marines guarding its airstrip and three companies of South Vietnamese in the Special Forces camp at Lang Vei (see map). The North Vietnamese, hidden from air observation by monsoon clouds and rain, had stealthily and expertly moved in through...
Diplomat Way ran out front all the way in capturing the Blue Grass Stakes at Keaneland last week. But is is hard to imagine him lasting the longer Derby distance of a mile and a quarter against stiffer competition...
...speech stories, features on the Newport Folk Festival, articles about Congressional hearings the draft, the peace campaigns, the Lampoon's janitor being beaten up. But it all seems distant, out of reach and somehow totally irrelevant to a life which centers around the green of the Yard and the grass of the River, to a university which serves lemonade on the lawn every Wednesday afternoon and maintains a "social and information" center with a fulltime staff in Matthews Hall. (The social director, last year a graduate student and this summer a class of '67 Cliffie, organizes mixers, tennis tournaments, trips...
...organization did not begin to consider the Lindsay/Ungar threat a serious one until the Rockfeller campaign for Governor in 1966. All through the summer the polls showed O'Connor comfortably ahead and the situation seemed hopeless for the Republicans. Rockefeller asked Archinal and Fino to get a grass-roots campaign rolling for him on the Price storefront Model which had been so effective in the mayoral race. Storefronts were set up but the organization lacked the man-power to run them. Meanwhile, Lindsay Republicans gleefully sat back and watched the regular organization flounder. Then, five weeks before election day when...
...first three innings while his teammates were collecting two tallies off the Quaker hurler, Marc Schoenfield. The big blows for Harvard were two long triples by Dan Hootstein and Pete Karegeannes, each of which would have been inside-the-park home runs except for the muddy outfield grass...