Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was no enemy to be seen, though an occasional artillery or mortar round still whistled in on the camp. What the Marines were watching was the approach of the vanguard of Operation Pegasus, a relief force of 30,000 Marines, Army troopers and South Vietnamese soldiers. The relief columns advanced down National Route 9 to ward Khe Sanh almost without opposition; they were accompanied by heliborne troopers, who were the first to reach the camp, landing on Khe Sanh's pocked runway. Thus, after 76 harrowing days, the siege of Khe Sanh last week came to an ironic...
...Relief for Giap. The bombardment was the most intensive in the history of aerial warfare. Tactical fighter-bombers flew nearly 9,000 sorties in March alone. On a single day, giant B-52s made as many as 34 strikes with their 2,000-lb. bombs. All told, more than 110,000 tons of explosives rained down during the siege, breaking up formations, destroying supplies and setting off thousands of secondary explosions. The U.S. had good reason to believe that among the targets hit was the headquarters for the Communist campaign...
Under Whipple's editorship, lead editorials have become as earnestly political as he himself is. Tea-table prose has been relegated to the "relief" editorial, an intentionally frivovlous piece at the bottom of the page...
...team then journeyed to Devon, Fla., and took a pair of games from Stetson University, 7-2 and 6-5. George Lalich won the first game with relief help from Gus Crim, and Ray Peters got credit for the second as Bob Lincoln and Robert Dorwart pitched the later innings...
...pitching staff has been consistently good. Peters--as he was last year--has been the ace, winning three straight since his indecisive appearance against Florida Southern. He was in real trouble only once, when Penn staged a slight rally at his expense. Relief pitcher Bob Lincoln came on and saved the Harvard victory. Lincoln is making a habit of this sort of thing. He preserved Peter's win over Stetson, and finished up Dorwart's victory over Rollins...