Word: metered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dived for cover into one courtyard, the others into an adjoining one. Outside in the street, a tremendous explosion resounded-either an M-79 grenade or a 60-mm. mortar shell. Three of the other newsmen, peering out a door, were wounded by blast fragments. UPI photographer Steve Van Meter asked an old man in a nearby building for some mosquito netting to bandage our wounded. The man shook his head. We offered him 500 piastres. Still no. With that Van Meter brushed the man aside, took the netting. The firefight was over with the big blast. Twenty minutes later...
...village outside of Saigon after the Viet Cong mortar attack on a U.S. airbase. Six Viet Cong passed through the village and retreated into the jungle. Then the bombing began. Many houses were knocked down and innocent people killed; a piece of rocket fell only a meter from...
...There were five other college crews in the race, and all of them had a shot at the Harvard eight, which began rowing at a steady beat of 39 strokes a minute, abruptly upped the count to 41, and opened up a 12-ft. lead at the 500-meter mark. For the rest of the race, the Crimson cox spent his time mostly looking over his shoulder. Harvard's final margin of victory was 70 ft. over Brown, followed by Cornell, Yale and Princeton in that order. The wizards from Penn finished last. Back to the drawing board, McGinn...
Conditions on Lake Quinsigamond were only slightly breezy, with a headwind quartering off the port bow of the shells as they raced up the 2,000-meter course. All six boats were well-bunched off the starting line in the varsity heavy final, and Harvard, at 34-35 strokes per minute, snapped an early Cornell lead to go out ahead by a precariously small margin...
Preliminary heats on Lake Quinsigamond begin at 8:45 Saturday morning. A record number of 75 boats from 16 colleges have entered this year's twenty-first Sprints championship. Races will be over a 2,00 meter course--about a mile and a quarter...