Word: grounded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...open slowly, leveled his bedside pistol?and fatally drilled his three-year-old daughter through the head. In Gunnison, Colo., Robert Delaney was riding along a dirt road on a motorbike when a shot rang out. His 15-year-old son Kirk, following on another motorbike, tumbled to the ground dead. Then his ten-year-old son was killed. Down the road, Delaney found a middle-aged hunter with a .30-'06 rifle, who explained that he had mistaken the boys, who were wearing red hats and riding a red bike...
Sandbag Shelters. The attack marked the 25th time in 38 days that rocket or mortar clusters had hit Saigon, and there are no longer any safe areas in the city. Each rocketing and each allied effort to dig out attacking Communist ground units cause fresh destruction and new refugees who stagger from the shattered homes, clutching meager possessions, dragging or carrying tearful, terrified children. Hospitals are packed-some 4,800 civilians have been treated for wounds since early May and refugee centers overflow under the tide of the more than 160,000 people made homeless in the past six weeks...
...assembled and fired by a crew of only three men. The missiles are not notably precise-at a maximum range of about seven miles, gunners are lucky if they hit within 400 yards of their target-but the lack of accuracy, if anything, enhances their terrorist effect. Despite allied ground and air patrols and radar-guided counterbattery fire, the Communists have thrown almost 400 rocket and mortar rounds at the capital since early May. The gunners have rarely been caught; last week, when 12,000 U.S. and Vietnamese troops fanned out to sterilize the rocket belt, they found little besides...
...that more or less permanent deployment of forces along the rocket ring would tie down as many as eight divisions or, counting support troops, some 100,000 men. Even then, they concede, the enemy could still get through the capital's defenses with sporadic rocket rounds and small ground incursions...
Though he gained plenty of ground in filmland since leaving football (eight pictures so far), Jim Brown, 32, once the terror of the N.F.L., was thrown for a loss after a scrimmage in Hollywood. Investigating reports of loud screaming in Brown's apartment, two deputies were blocked at the door by the 6-ft. 2-in., 225-lb. fullback. "If you're coming in, you're going to have to go over me," snarled Brown and, said the deputies, straight-armed one officer seven feet back into a wall. Police reinforcements soon overcame Brown's defense...