Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first fire from the North Vietnamese, and soon battles were raging throughout the hills as unit after U.S. unit moved in and made contact through the week. At nightfall the infantrymen would pull back, and air and artillery would go to work. B-52s several times came in to pound enemy positions, particularly along the lines of retreat to the Laotian border, where 150,000 Ibs. of explosives were dropped in a single raid. At week's end the fighting was still flaring in spots around Dak To, having already cost the Communists some 500 dead. This time...
...those accustomed to Massachusetts politicians, the decision of this dovish David to challenge the presidential Goliath seems a strange one indeed. He lacks the jaunty grin of an Edward M. Kennedy; he does not pound the table with his first like a Francis X. Bellotti; and his throat does not issue the pious platitudes of a John A. Volpe...
...only other League game, Cornell--smarting from losses to Harvard and Dartmouth--picked on Columbia to get even. The star of the game for the host Big Red was a 245-pound defensive tackle, John Sponheimer. Sponheimer intercepted a Marty Domres pass at the Lion 20 and took it in for a tie-breaking score after two minutes of the second half. Three minutes later, Sponheimer recovered a Domres fumble on the Columbia 21, setting up the score that made...
...Minister Maurice Couve de Murville did not flatly veto British membership. But before British entry could be considered, Couve said, Britain must first of all solve all its balance of payments problems and give up sterling's role as an international currency backed by a gold reserve. The pound, said Couve, must again become "a national currency like other national currencies, not subject to the uncertainties that it has known for the past 50 years." Couve then attained a new pinnacle in diplomatic doubletalk by adding that British entry "will be possible only when it is effectively possible...
...Harvard experiment, one of several based on the 599 pound satellite known as OSO IV, involves scanning the sun's surface closely during a period of about six months, in order to supplement observations made from the earth's surface...