Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists out. All week long, battles raged around Saigon's Y Bridge, where snipers and Communist demolition teams, vainly assigned to blow up the forked span, held out against helicopter gunships and jet bombers while U.S. and South Vietnamese armor and infantry slashed at them on the ground. At week's end they came out shooting, trying to escape a tightening "wagon train" ring of allied armor and guns; 88 were killed. Inside Cholon, a few Viet Cong flags blossomed, and terrorists stalked the streets...
...their lunar landing trainer "the Flying Bedstead"-it is a wingless tangle of tanks, tubes and rockets that stays aloft solely on the thrust of its engines. One day last week at Ellington Air Force Base, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, 37, was hovering the contraption a few feet off the ground when it suddenly shot up to 200 ft., pitched sharply down, and rolled to the right. "Better get out of there, Neil," barked Flight Control. Armstrong needed no prompting. He had already yanked the ejection ring and he parachuted to safety as the $2,100,000 craft dived straight into...
Hail of Bullets. The V.C. commander then fired from close range at another wounded correspondent lying on the ground; by then, all but Palmos had been killed. When the V.C. lowered their guns, Palmos leaped to his feet and sprinted away. "There was tremendous surprise and anger on their faces. They started firing, but they weren't very good shots. They hit a sign, they hit a post, they hit my shirt, but they didn't hit me." He ducked into a line of refugees and managed to elude his pursuers...
Only Mike Ezell and Graham Maloney, two select sophomores, managed to put together the winning combination of serves, ground-strokes, and vollies in the singles matches. The number one doubles match was called because of boredom with the score deadlocked at 10-10 in the third...
Brandeis riddled the varsity hopefuls with an arsenal of unorthodox ground strokes to score a stunning 6-2 upset on the unfamiliar hardcourt surfaces at Brandeis...