Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tragic Crash. On the ground and in the air, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces also kept up their pressure on the Reds in a grim race against the arrival of the monsoon season. Fighter-bombers swarmed daily over North Viet Nam, blasting bridges, shooting up road and rail traffic, igniting petroleum storage tanks and striking within 55 miles of Hanoi. For the Americans, there were moments of tragedy: a pair of U.S. helicopters collided over Bienhoa airbase-the scene last month of an accidental chain explosion that killed 27 men and wrecked ten bombers. This time, nine Americans died...
...almost without letup, prowled north of the 17th parallel. Carrier-based Skyraiders and Skyhawks plastered petroleum-storage facilities at Phuqui, 125 miles south of Hanoi, sending braided columns of orange flame and black smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air. Navy jets took potluck, strafing targets along highways, rail lines and riverbeds from the 17th parallel to a point only 80 miles from Hanoi. Air Force Thunderchiefs made the deepest penetration yet by U.S. warplanes, streaking up to the Red River Delta town of Ninhbinh, 60 miles south of Hanoi, to drop 500,000 propaganda leaflets urging North Viet...
...long ago, the three former British East African nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda were talking ambitiously of joining together in political federation. There was easy agreement to maintain the joint rail, air and postal services handed down by the British, and all three nations continued using the East African shilling as the common currency. A common market was developed, with a Central Legislative Assembly to govern it. Last year the three good neighbors even agreed to divvy up future industrial development equally among them...
Purposeful Maneuver. Along the rail. Ogden Phipps's Dapper Dan, another son of Ribot and runner-up to Lucky Debonair in the Derby, began to make his move. Jockey Turcotte remembered. Whipping righthanded, he drove Tom Rolfe straight toward the rail as if he intended to run right into Dapper Dan. At the last second before a collision. Turcotte turned his colt away. The maneuver served its purpose: for the barest instant. Dapper Dan flinched and broke stride-and in that instant Tom Rolfe won the race. Milo Valenzuela, who rode Dapper Dan, claimed foul. The stewards did their...
...battle progresses, the ship suffers her first fatality. At a dimly lit spot on the far rail of the ship, the muffled voice of a chaplain is heard, a bass drum rolls, and a splash sounds over the starboard side. Later on, men are heard practicing their bathroom baritones ("Yo-ho, Pagliacci, I got a waterproof watchee") when a torpedo strikes. There is a rending of metal, an explosion, and finally the sucking sound of water rushing through a hole. The singing stops. All four men died in the shower room...