Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fought through Hué block by block, house by house, then yard by yard, the U.S. Marines were now engaged in what a company commander called a "brick-by-brick fight" to drive the North Vietnamese forces from the Citadel. Finally, when allied troops had shrunk the Communists' ground to three fortified pockets, South Vietnamese soldiers, flanked by a company of Black Panther Rangers, shelled a hole in the wall guarding the most important redoubt-the Imperial City-and swarmed in. They found only a handful of defenders left...
James Stockard, a third-year design student, said the committee meeting came down to bickering over the middle ground. He said that there was general agreement that it was "a little silly to play the numbers game...
...obscured equally fine performances by equally deserving members of the team. Doug Hardin's 8:44.2 two-mile run at Brown, for example, places him among the country's top five two-milers. And sophomore Keith Colburn may surprise his miler teammates-and-run the lot into the ground once he shakes his persistent injuries...
Every now and then, one in ten or or so of the injuries as we looked over the hospital's records, were recorded as coming from ground fire. Here it is impossible to tell whether the ground fire was Viet Cong or that of the ARVN or American troops...
...were having to go in armed convoys. And half of the offices hadn't reopened yet. This huge war machine--you've got no idea how big it is until you see it--this huge war effort of civilian and military personnel in Saigon had ground to a halt for over a week...