Word: sluggings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the lights had the misfortune of drawing Cornell in the first round of their meet, the heavies--in their quest for the big prize--have it easy today as Vesper and Penn slug it out in the first heat. Harvard meets no-contest boats in the other heat...
...part-time employee of Continental News Service, hit in the left hip; William Weisel, 30, an American Broadcasting Co. associate director, wounded in the abdomen; Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, 43, who with her husband Arthur had been touring the several election-night headquarters and wound up with a slug in her forehead. Although Schrade was the one who appeared dead to onlookers, only Kennedy was critically wounded...
...release, a pushing back, for a time, of the horizons. There is talk with one's neighbor, the compulsion to relive the moment when you were hit, to hear how it was when he was hit. The helicopter pilot tells over and over how the shattered AK-47 slug he is fondling came up through the armored floor of his chopper, ripped through his calf and embedded itself in the dashboard. As do the others, he reconstructs his adventure with the clarity of total recall-the surprise, the pain, the pleasure of having faced death and stared it down...
...gland and stopped in the temporal lobe of the brain. Another (No. 2) entered below the left eye and came to rest between the carotid artery and the jugular vein. One centimeter's deviation in almost any direction and this bullet could have caused fatal hemorrhaging. A third slug burrowed from the corner of the right eye into the jawbone. The fourth traveled from a point under the right nostril into the hard palate. The fifth bullet went through the roof of Williams' mouth, then to the base of his skull, coming to a halt beyond the pituitary...
Humphrey suffered no direct damage in Indiana and was only nicked in Washington, but he stands to lose considerably if Kennedy runs a string of primary victories that crush McCarthy's candidacy soon. Humphrey's standing above the primaries while Kennedy and McCarthy slug it out is sound strategy only so long as McCarthy keeps slugging. If McCarthy cannot slow Kennedy's pace, Humphrey will have to fight more vigorously to pick up delegates in the nonprimary states and to maintain a creditable standing in public-opinion polls. The Vice President began testing a rhetorical weapon last...