Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor boards, two-by-four framing and 42-in.-high walls? Can he grow into the resourceful, inventive, self-sufficient man he's expected to be by the Mr. Munsons of the world when he's told to climb no higher than 12 ft. off the ground? So Mr. Munson fell out of a tree house as a child, and cut his arm. May he do so again-but this time from a 5-in.-diameter hardwood branch! And may he land-rump first -on a 16-penny nail...
Later, someone suggested that it might be fun to take a trip to West Berlin through one of the air corridors in which the Russians have occasionally diverted themselves by buzzing Western planes. On the way Hughes encountered no Russians but created a minor sensation among ground personnel. "What are you?" cried the startled radar controller at the Berlin field. Hughes reluctantly returned from Europe by commercial airliner. Flying, he feels, is safer than gambling-and in the end cheaper...
...Pentagon reckoning, 37% of the troops assigned to the air and ground war are thus available for combat-far more than some officers in Saigon estimate. The figure is substantially lower than the World War II and Korea rate of 57%, but that is mainly due to the fact that thousands of construction troops were there to develop ports and airfields in the primitive country...
...intelligence report that the Cong are likely to bring some goods down one of their supply routes," says the 1st Infantry Division's Sergeant Leonard Knipe. "So we go after them, zipping up and down the trail with our lights off, both scope men studying every inch of ground below us, as though it were day. As soon as we see something, the lead chopper informs the other ship, we wheel around...
...week ended, the two sides were lobbing shells and bombs at each other across the canal in the heaviest battle since the U.N. imposed a cease-fire on June 10. In the air over Suez, the Israelis downed seven Egyptian planes, conceded one loss themselves. On the ground, scores of Israeli and Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded in the artillery barrages. And, for the first time since the ceasefire, scattered shooting broke out across the Israeli-Jordanian line...