Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first appeared in newspapers around the world, that anguished exchange by field telephone between a battle-weary young infantry lieutenant on a Vietnamese hill and his battalion commander was disturbingly reminiscent of classic episodes of battlefield rebellion. Ground down to two-thirds of its original strength after five days of sharp combat, a U.S. Army unit-Company A of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade's 3rd Battalion-had balked at orders to advance once again on well-bunkered North Vietnamese positions...
...they did so with agonizing regularity. In their first seven seasons they threw away the awesome total of 737 games while winning only 394 (see chart, page 51). Only the staunchest of supporters could have sat in the stands through those long afternoons and borne the relentless booting of ground balls, the repeated mistakes on the base paths, the dreary succession of batsmen looking at called third strikes...
...firms to less congested sites on the other side of the Bay. Last week San Francisco's Board of Supervisors removed the last obstacle to construction when it granted Transamerica the right to close off and build upon a short stretch of Merchant Street. Now Transamerica has the ground footage it needs, and construction is scheduled to start late this fall...
...threat. From weather satellite pictures of cloud formations, trackers could map wind patterns. Since locusts ride the winds, spray planes knew where to go. Once they had made contact, they dumped their loads of spray through atomizers, one right after the other, until the swarms were stopped. On the ground, pesticide squads struck breeding areas. The winged locusts were turned back, and the young locusts died before they could develop wings. The FAQ thus managed to reduce a possible plague to a minor annoyance...
...ship and crew, and the stakes are even higher. What could be the country's largest oil reserves have been discovered under the snows of the remote North Slope, but the distance and weather conditions raise drilling costs to double those for bringing oil out of the ground in the U.S. In order to sell the Alaska oil at competitive prices, Humble and its partners must find an economical way to bring it down south...