Word: knockouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotter phase, the skies above North Viet Nam were thick with U.S. planes - and with Communist flak. U.S. pilots flew an average of 243 sorties a day, hitting several targets that they had never be fore been permitted to bomb, but care fully avoiding throwing any knockout punches. As the monsoon rains cleared, U.S. jets blasted MIG airfields for the first time and hit new targets in the port city of Haiphong and around Hanoi. For the time being, they left un touched the large Phuc Yen strip north west of Hanoi, the base for nearly three-fourths...
...third he connected with a right to Folley's jaw, and in the fifth he fired a long series of left jabs in the challenger's face. That was his finest round. The sixth was again monotonous and the seventh dull until the four-punch explosion and knockout...
Harvard's Cassius Clay, Eliot's Steve Crosby, won his third consecutive 185-lb title in the day's most spectacular bout, a first-round knockout of Bill Crowe, also of Eliot...
...final will be an all-Leverett affair with Charles Delony, last year's runner-up, fighting Ralph Dittman. Delony registered the day's only knockout yesterday when he downed Dieter Wahl of Kirkland House with a right cross in the second round...
Wherever they looked last week, the leaders of North Viet Nam saw trouble. To the north, Red China was convulsed by violence. Below the 17th parallel, the U.S. and its allies were preparing a knockout blow against the Communist "main force" units, which were already reeling from 1966 losses of 50,000 men in combat and 20,000 defectors...