Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctor after the game. Then he would sit down and write the story of the game for small newspapers that generally neglected to run it, copying his leads from the big papers. "One of them," he recalls, "went: 'Outlined against a blue-gray October sky . . .' " After Tank Younger arrived in 1945, it was the other teams' coaches who drove the ambulances...
...great fullback Younger began the legend, the first player from a black college to make it to the National Football League. Tank returned to the rural school of 4,000 in north Louisiana and helped Willie Davis get to the N.F.L. Davis came back and helped Ernie Ladd and Buck Buchanan. Rosey Taylor helped Willie Brown. Charlie Joiner helped Sammie White. Now White has been coming back to help a receiver named Trumaine Johnson, who should be a No. 1 draft choice next year and the 206th Grambling Tiger to play professional football...
...about 5 p.m. Thursday, Hobeika's force assembled at the Beirut International Aiport and moved into the Shatila camp soon afterward. Israeli artillery assisted them with flares and later with tank and mortar fire. There was scattered resistance, and Hobeika's men asked for more flares, more tank fire and later for first-aid assistance in evacuating their own casualties. At dawn Friday, Hobeika received Israeli permission to bring two additional battalions into the camps. As it turned out, only one battalion was used. Throughout the day and all that night, the murderous operation continued. On Friday, Israeli Chief...
...emissary shouted that Sa'ad Haddad's men were killing people in the camps and that the crowd wanted to seek shelter. "I cannot do anything," came the soldier's response. "If you stay here for more than ten minutes, I will shoot you." A tank was rolled around and began moving toward the crowd. The refugees fell back and abandoned their plan...
...22nd novel, is his most surprising, an intoxicating mix of all the previous themes, antic, religious and somber. His heroes have tumbled, almost unchanged, from Cervantes' 17th century classic. A Vatican prelate, whose Mercedes is miraculously "repaired" by Padre Quixote (who simply fills the empty gas tank) grants a boon: "There are more sinners among the bourgeois than among peasants ... go forth like your ancestor Don Quixote on the highroads of the world...