Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each aircraft equipped with parachutes, so that in case of trouble it could be gently lowered to the ground like a space capsule...
...Step Aside." Shriver spoke the second day. He had been warned to expect hostility, and rewrote his speech to prepare for it. "I know you have got the grill," he began, "and I'm the hamburger, freshly ground yesterday and ready to be cooked today." He met the opposition head on, detailed OEO's considerable accomplishments, and expressed his own impatience with not being able to do more faster. He likened the poor to labor-union members, who must sometimes settle for less than their full demands. "The American society can't afford wildcat strikes...
South Viet Nam's political crisis slowed up the war effort-at least on the ground. Military land action decreased 20% last week, largely because many Vietnamese units were either transferred from field positions to watch-and-patrol duty in the restless cities or preferred not to launch any new attacks while the situation in Saigon was uncertain...
...only Bruin win came in the fifth singles when Brown sophomore Johnny Moglescu beat Dick Appleby, 6-2, 2-6, 8-6. Appleby dominated play from the start with a sharp net game and a booming forehand -- which he usually hit with both feet off the ground. But Moglescu, an awkward looking lefty, hung on and extracted more and more errors from the erratic Appleby as the match progressed...
...tone of his research is best expressed in the image of a befeathered savage dancer wearing sneakers. Without straining for irony, Gaisseau notes inching progress in New Guinea, where one happy warrior of the cannibalistic Kuku-Kuku tribe is flown away to face murder charges; his kinsmen on the ground wear human hands as talismans, smoke the bodies of their honored dead and lug them around like dolls...