Word: miles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the first shells whistled in, off-guard Israeli troops were playing a Sabbath soccer game. Within moments along the 70-mile Suez front, Egyptian gunners had opened up with everything from long-range artillery to Russian-made Katyusha rockets. In all, 15 Israeli soldiers were killed and 34 wounded, mostly in the first rounds. The Israelis fired back, accounting for five Egyptian dead and nine wounded. It was the second artillery ambush by the Egyptians in seven weeks, and the first in which the Israelis emerged second best...
Fink's secret is community empathy, an element that is an absolute essential to keeping the peace in his Ninth Precinct. He describes his melting-pot enclave of less than one square mile as "a bouillabaisse" in which "all these people are cooking but never assimilate...
Shorter forced the pace from the start, beating off successive challenges from Keith Colburn, previously undefeated Roy Shaw and captain Doug Hardin. Hardin and Shorter battled step for step over the last three miles of the five-mile course, until the Yale pulled away several hundred yards from the finish...
...today, Shorter passed the first mile in a reported 4:22 and in the process spread out the field. Colburn held on for a short time, but eventually fell back into stride and would up 12th...
...Apollo lapsed into unscheduled silence; recovery helicopters from the aircraft carrier Essex flapped blindly through rainsqualls and fog in a vain search for the spacecraft. Then, Ap suddenly, the helicopters reported that they had picked up Apollo's homing signals. The spacecraft was only a third of a mile from its selected landing spot...