Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Generous Hands. A destroyer boomed a 21-gun salute, flags fluttered, and the noon sun bore down on Battery Park at the lower tip of Manhattan. The President stood solemnly before the memorial-eight 19-ft. granite pylons that bear the names of the dead and a giant bronze eagle that looks across the bay toward the Statue of Liberty. He spoke of the sea, struggle, sacrifice, and "what it all meant that we should be in such hazard today." Declared the President: "It means that every generation of Americans must be expected in their time to do their part...
...darkened street outside, the strangers' spokesman suddenly dropped his bundle. He stooped and straightened up with a blazing submachine gun. Civil Guard Sergeant Aquilino Sam Jara fell dead. Other guardsmen returned the fire, dropping two of the bearded strangers as the other five fled in the darkness. In the days that followed, all of the intruders were killed or captured. One of those who lay dead was Poet Javier Heraud Perez...
...going out over the air waves were all very confusing to the folks tuned in at home. In the distance, they could also hear the rumble of tanks manned by rebel cadets, and the whoosh of government air force F-100 jets that were spraying the rebels with machine-gun fire from rooftop level...
Long before Starter Tom Moore raised his gun, sportswriters were calling the race "the Miracle Mile." "If all the 'Miracle Miles' were laid end to end," protested one old track hand, "they'd reach straight to heaven." But superlatives could be forgiven. Besides Snell and Beatty, the eight-man field included three other sub-4-min. milers: California's Jim Grelle (3 min. 56.7 sec.), and Bobby Seaman (3 min. 58 sec.), Marine Lieut. Gary Weisiger (3 min. 58.1 sec.). Each had a plan for winning: beat Snell. "If we don't beat this...
...took their marks. Rangy (5 ft. 10 ½in., 171 Ibs.) Peter Snell, relaxed and smiling, was in lane No. 1; little (5 ft. 51 in., 128 Ibs.) Jim Beatty, tense and drawn, was in lane No. 2. The others were strung out across the track. Bang! At the gun, California's George Jessup pounced in front. Beatty was second, Weisiger third, Grelle fourth, Snell a distant sixth. Nobody expected Jessup to be around for long. Sure enough, midway through the second lap, Beatty leaped into the lead...