Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally in the seventh, Harvard beamed in on Kiburz's stuff. With one out, scrappy Nelly Houston slapped a ground single to left -- a grounder was about the only way to get around M.I.T.'s brilliant leftfielder Jeff Weissmann -- and stole second...
...scored when Cobb ate a ground ball, but Peters quelled the rally on a grounder to first baseman Joe O'- Donnell. HARVARD ab r h rbi Smith 5 0 0 0 Cobb 3 2 1 0 Hoot'n 4 1 2 0 Lord 2 1 1 1 Hall 4 0 2 2 K'gn's 4 1 1 0 O'D'll 4 0 2 0 H'ston 3 0 0 0 M'C'lsh 3 0 1 0 Peters 0 0 0 0 Totals...
...hardstands; an orange cloud of billowing smoke was visible al most 20 miles away. Flying out of bases in Thailand, a dozen Air Force Phantom jets then scorched the new MIG base at Hoa Lac, damaged or destroyed at least seven of the dozen or so MIGs on the ground in one raid, and then returned later in the week for a second attack. All told, the U.S. lost eleven attack planes in the week's raids, but U.S. jets knocked down five MIGs and lost only two planes in several furious dogfights over the North's cities...
...launched into orbit last week carrying veteran Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, 40, it seemed certain that the first manned Soviet flight since March 1965 was aimed at overtaking and even surpassing the faltering U.S. Apollo program. Barely 24 hours later, Komarov was dead, killed in a crash landing that may ground the Russian man-in-space program for months...
...routinely checking out the systems of his 15,000-lb. to 16,000-lb. ship, which was slightly larger than the 12,000-lb. Apollo. But by the cosmonaut's fifth revolution around the earth, they believe, increasing difficulties with both the attitude-control and communications systems warned ground controllers that the flight of Soyuz might have to be prematurely ended. Plans for a rendezvous were abandoned, and the launch of the second spacecraft was scrubbed...