Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relieved of his coaching duties effective next Tuesday, Wilson would like nothing better than to go out a winner, and if Harvard's play last weekend on the road was any sign, the Crimson foes could be in for some unexpectedly rough going...
...rubble, a Marine stood up to look through what had been a window, and an enemy soldier shot him through the neck. Greenway and a medical corpsman dragged the victim to the company command post, and once out of the line of fire, laid him down on a road behind a burned...
Pulling in to defend the cities, the allies have been forced to cede large areas of the countryside to the Communists. Except for the largest population centers, for example, the rich Delta is now almost entirely in Viet Cong hands. There is not a Delta road safe to drive on, by day or night. Massive quantities of supplies are moving through the Delta for the enemy buildup around Saigon, and U.S. reconnaissance planes now sight piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have...
Things have changed in 14 years. When Bannister, a 25-year-old English medical student, crossed the finish line at Oxford's Iffley Road track after his history-making 3:59.4 run and collapsed from exhaustion, he was thought to have done the impossible. Today, Jim Ryun breezes through sub-3:55 miles with seemingly no effort...
What was interesting to recognize, though, is that these free fire zones started just a few kilometers down the road from the major cities. The free fire zone outside Quang Ngai was just eight or ten kilometers from the city center. What this meant is that peasants working out in the field were regularly subjected to firing, to bombing, to harrassment. All night long as we lay in our beds at Quang Ngai, we could hear the mortars and artillery and the helicopters raining down their terror on different parts of the countryside. And in the morning the results were...