Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killed or wounded. As a torrential rain began to fall, the Communists sought to tighten a noose around the Aussie company, charged in human-wave attacks that were repeatedly beaten back. The fighting was so intense that the Aussies almost ran out of ammunition, and their helicopters braved heavy ground fire and blinding rain to airlift more into the front line...
...over surrounding hills undetected by the V.C., opened up with .50-cal. machine guns, cutting down 25 Reds with the first volley. Then Australian, New Zealand and U.S. artillery found the range. When the smoke cleared, the Communists were in full flight, and 220 Viet Cong dead littered the ground. Under a rubber tree, guarding the body of his slain platoon leader, was Private B. C. Miller of Brisbane. Wounded in the face, shoulder and leg, Miller had lapsed into unconsciousness only to be awakened by a Viet Cong trying to tug off his boots. "Bug off!" Miller shouted...
...furnishes most of its civil servants and most of its budget. It is virtually without industry, its soil is eroded and impoverished, its roads little more than tracks for the oxcarts that travel them. Its women wear blankets redder than the dusty earth, its old men sit on the ground in front of their huts smoking long-stemmed pipes. And its young men leave as soon as they can to seek work in the white cities...
...ranks No. 1 in the U.S. and plays like it when he can keep a lid on his temper. Last week the only menacing thing about Dennis was his game. Mixing riflelike base-line shots with lobs, he ran Mexico's Star Rafael Osuna, 27, into the ground with a four-set victory...
...Lockheed Electra into the East River during an instrument approach to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Anneliese Goldberg, whose daughter was among the 63 victims, filed suit, claiming that the accident was caused by a faulty altimeter that had registered a height of 500 feet when the plane was at ground level...