Word: grounds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...single day's dogfighting last week, Thailand-based U.S. Air Force pilots downed seven MIG-17s, equaling the war's record set on Jan. 2; they probably destroyed two more. Five MIGs were shot down in the previous week and another eight were destroyed on the ground, bringing the two-week total to at least 20 enemy jets. Last week's luckless MIG challenge came while U.S. pilots hit barracks and storage areas four miles from the center of Hanoi for the second time in a week...
...previous week, ending May 6, according to figures released last week in Saigon, Communist dead totaled 1,903. The Marine losses around the DMZ accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total American dead of 274 in the ground war, a figure exactly matching the previous U.S. weekly record dead in Viet...
...Sigma Chis at Colorado State have invented a sweetheart of a sport. They call it "parachute riding," and it works like this: first a parachute is laid out on the ground with all the shroud lines straight; then it is harnessed to the rider, who stands, sits or stretches out on a flat piece of heavy cardboard. Helpers then lift the chute so that it can fill with wind-all the while chanting "Come and help, Gus!" (the name for springtime gusts in the Rockies)-and away the rider goes over the grass on his cardboard chariot at speeds...
...selling such obscene publications as Lust Pool and High Heels. A third case concerned the right of Arkansas to suppress and destroy various girlie magazines, including Gent, Bachelor and Swank. Though it had taken the cases to consider other issues, the court finally reversed all three judgments on the ground that none of the publications was obscene...
...world of politics -- is stated, dissected, and reworded a thousand times during Plebeians' oddly structured course. But a production as fascinating as any in memory, and a performance--Gitter's--that totally transcends the usual boundaries of academic theatre, draw The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising onto new ground as often as its author returns...