Word: mats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most startling and depressing passages in James Michener's account of the Kent State tragedy are not those about the killing of four students one year ago (he deals with that almost mat-ter-of-factly), but those wherein he records the hate and anger-against a whole student generation-that surfaced afterward. A mother of three Kent State students: "Anyone who appears on the streets of a city like Kent with long hair, dirty clothes or barefooted deserves to be shot." Where did this Ohio woman get such ideas? "I teach at the local high school," she replied...
...when the first gunships and Medevac helicopters arrived, the entire base was in flames. "You couldn't see because of the smoke," said Lieut. Mat Noonan, a Medevac pilot. "We had to circle three times just to see where the pad was." Noonan finally set down amidst "the worst carnage I have ever seen at an American installation. There were rows and rows of bodies-some burned to charcoal, others completely disemboweled. There were nine body bags full of bits and pieces of flesh...
...just kept trying to run away from him and crawl off the mat. I was called for stalling four times in the last 30 seconds. Once more and I would have been disqualified. Ten seconds more and he would have had me," Galeski says of the match...
...Going there (the Nationals) for the first time, I kind of over-exaggerated the competition and pictured it as being superhuman but once I got on the mat with some of those guys, I found I could actually handle them." Starr said. "I went with an attitude of hoping to place, next time...
...After I wrestled the best in my life for two days (Thursday and Friday), I was tired, physically and mentally hurt." Starr said. "Brundage really made me work and in the third period he opened up a gash in my leg when he threw me off the mat into the score-board clock. I just wasn't ready for Bragg-on a good day I could've beaten...