Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supported with allies and joining on an open field of battle. But then war tended to fade into jungles and a thousand ambiguities of costume and faction and political subtlety. Viet Nam was America's painful education in this new form. Overarmed and under informed, the Americans came onto the battlefield and found that it was all quicksand and fog. Viet Nam was morally impenetrable as well. Americans could not tell enemies from friends. The war became a terrible waste of idealism. An older generation of men who had had their war at Normandy and Iwo Jima would grow...
...supporting V.C. troops positioned around the embassy began lobbing mortar fire onto the grounds...
There was almost no resistance. Communist guns-75s and 105s-opened up from the north shore seven hours before the deadline set by the ultimatum for unconditional surrender. At 11 p.m., an hour ahead of schedule, shock troops jammed onto river craft and struck across...
...potent Quaker offense finally did find its way onto the scoreboard, when with 21 35 left in the first, the Harvard defense couldn't clear the ball Freshman Donna Berk seized the opportunity to blast the ball past Crimson netminder Juliet Lamont and close the Harvard lead...
...even two halves and an overtime were enough for the stickwomen to find their way onto the scoreboard again yesterday, as Northeastern blanked a struggling Harvard squad, 1-0, at Parsons Field...