Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the awards, the President opened a new Hall of Heroes in the heart of the Pentagon's A Ring. He watched solemnly as the quartet affixed brass plaques to walnut panels, dwarfed by three huge replicas of the nation's highest military award for valor, joining their names to those of 3,206 other winners of the Medal of Honor-37 of them in the Viet...
Gore spatters the play. At one point, men in surgical masks carve open a character's belly and remove a huge, bloody rat. The scene is bafflingly elusive, distinctly emetic, but a marvelously theatrical way to ring down the first-act curtain...
...Communist demolition teams, vainly assigned to blow up the forked span, held out against helicopter gunships and jet bombers while U.S. and South Vietnamese armor and infantry slashed at them on the ground. At week's end they came out shooting, trying to escape a tightening "wagon train" ring of allied armor and guns; 88 were killed. Inside Cholon, a few Viet Cong flags blossomed, and terrorists stalked the streets...
Into Open Swampland. The Communists tried to reinforce their infiltrated units inside the city; they massed troops that had marched overnight from Cambodia in groups of five and six and attempted to slip them through the ring of allied troops around the city. One group of Viet Cong women dressed in semimilitary garb was captured as it brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter...
...Astronaut Neil Armstrong, 37, was hovering the contraption a few feet off the ground when it suddenly shot up to 200 ft., pitched sharply down, and rolled to the right. "Better get out of there, Neil," barked Flight Control. Armstrong needed no prompting. He had already yanked the ejection ring and he parachuted to safety as the $2,100,000 craft dived straight into the ground. It was Armstrong's second close call. Two years ago he coolly jockeyed a malfunctioning Gemini 8 spacecraft to an emergency splashdown in the Pacific...