Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week was Correspondent David Greenway. Moving with a Marine company at the Citadel, Greenway decided to go forward with a squad that was assigned to knock out a North Vietnamese army machine-gun post. As the squad reached a wall still standing amid the 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...
Still, the allies moved on toward the imperial city, the seat of Viet Nam's government and a center of its learning during the 19th century. There stood the palace complex, with its graceful red and gold buildings and pagoda roofing, its grounds of tall shade trees and frangipani, and its collections of bleu d'Hué porcelain. It was the most beautiful section of Hué still standing. It was also an eerie place to die, and its Communist defenders evidently decided to get out while they could. They left behind an unexploded shell near the fragile...
When Roger Bannister ran the world's sub-four minute mile in May 1954--hailed by London newspapers as the greatest achievement in athletics history"--Harvard's mile record stood at a sluggish 4:16.5, set by A. C. Northrup '38 in his senior year...
Entering the final event at Middlebury, the 60-meter ski jump, Harvard stood third in the team standings after superlative Alpine performances. But Mitchell's injury had a big psychological effect on Harvard's other jumpers. "Our guys were just trying to live through the experience," Friedman said. Their sub-par performance dropped Harvard to sixth place. Perennial champion Dartmouth edged Middlebury to capture the team title...
...ceremonial photograph with the Kennedy family. Shortly after, he came through Mrs. Lincoln's office again and spied the child drawing pictures by her desk. As she tells it, L.B.J.'s face lit up, and he said: "Do you know who I am, Caroline?" The little girl stood mute. "I'm your Uncle Lyndon. I want you to call me 'Uncle Lyndon' whenever you see me." When he left, Caroline asked: "Is he really my uncle?" Told that if he were, he would have to be either her father's or her mother...