Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard shot coldly in the first half as is its wont. Only Jeff Grate's incredible bombing kept the Crimson in the game. The 6-0 senior who burst on the scene two years ago with great promise finally began to find the basket after a disappointing season...
...morning of Aug. 2, Maddox saw three North Vietnamese torpedo boats near Hon Me. Later that day, three PT boats closed on Maddox within clear sight of her lookouts, and kept closing, despite warning shots. The battle was on. By the time it was over, one boat was dead in the water and presumed sinking; two others were damaged by F-8 Crusader jets, called in from the U.S. aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. Maddox suffered minimal damage. The Pentagon has pictures of the action, and no one questions this part of the story. The destroyer Turner Joy, a 2,850-tonner...
...pressure mounted on the waiting U.S. Marines, who underwent one of the most concentrated barrages of the war-1,307 rounds of shells in one five-hour stretch. Having promised to level Saigon in a "second wave" of attacks on South Viet Nam's cities, the Communists kept up a steady drumfire of rockets and mortars on the capital. And the U.S. command announced that for the week ending Feb. 17, a record number of 543 Americans died in combat, bringing to 2,200 the number of U.S. dead so far this year...
...swiveling from side to side as if to sniff the air, then belching fire at the Citadel walls. Overhead, helicopters sprayed napalm across the ponds and courtyards of the Imperial Palace, and fighter-bombers blasted away at three main enemy positions. From below, out to sea, a U.S. cruiser kept shelling the Communists...
...Harvard kept its fullcourt man-to-man press on, and, trying for the ball and a clinching basket, Mickey Norlander fouled Penn's 5-8 gunner guard Steve Pearsall. Fortunately for Harvard, Pearsall choked the one-and-one opportunity...