Word: roading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police and soldiers set up road-blocks nearby and searched vehicles, but few security force personnel were visible at the stadium itself...
...looking at it now," explained Melrose, whose last game will be against Brown on January 13, "is that there are a lot of games on the road in the first half of the season and a lot of teams will be gunning for us because we are the national champions. I want to help give the team a good record heading into the second half...
McCormack has been Melrose's blueline buddy and road roommate for the past two seasons. To say he was happy about Melrose's good news would be an understatment...
...into the temple of a Viet Cong officer. Bright sunlight, Saigon: the scrawny police chief's arm, outstretched, goes by extension through the trigger finger into the V.C.'s brain. That photograph, and another in 1972 showing a naked young Vietnamese girl running in arms-outstretched terror up a road away from American napalm, outmanned the force of three U.S. Presidents and the most powerful Army in the world. The photographs were considered, quite ridiculously, to be a portrait of America's moral disgrace. Freudians spend years trying to call up the primal image-memories, turned to trauma, that distort...
Adams has always felt uncomfortable about his picture of Loan executing the Viet Cong officer. What the picture does not show is that a few moments earlier the Viet Cong had slaughtered the family of Loan's best friend in a house just up the road. All this occurred during the Tet offensive, a state of general mayhem all over South Viet Nam. The Communists in similar circumstances would not have had qualms about summary execution...