Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jeans. Willie split the trouts' bellies with his knife, washed them in the cold water of the brook, and wiped the blood off his knife with a skunk-cabbage leaf. She had red hair and her blouse was open between her breasts. The train was going through the tunnel and it made a glumph sound as it went in and the wail of the whistle came out way back there, whoo whoo whoooooo. He heard the man fit the key in the lock and go inside very softly as if he were ashamed. Adele, he pleaded, just once. Willie...
...force's troops are always based at sea rather than in shore installations, security can be complete-and so can the surprise of the stab. Near Danang, the marines were using a new device to smoke the V.C. out: portable smoke generators to spot the updraft from concealed tunnel entrances...
...Eagles, with fair offensive potential, will ride Norman Snead's good days to some upsets and to sixth place. And the Steelers, old, injury-prone, and totally without glamor, will be as far sunk into last place as they can possibly tunnel...
...steep hillside near the port of Qui Nhon, eastern terminus of vital Route 19 to the highlands, which was reopened in Operation Ramrod after months under Viet Cong control. Utter soon found the enemy: 20 fully armed Viet Cong troops who promptly took refuge in a nearby network of tunnels. It would have been easy enough for Utter and his men to wipe them out with grenades or incinerate them with flamethrowers. Trouble was, the V.C. had herded 390 women and children into the tunnel with them. So Utter chose the humane way, shoving into the tunnel mouth 48 canisters...
...looked down and saw smoke coming up," says Saunders. "I heard a man crying, 'Help me, God help me!' But I couldn't see him. I was in the tube. The missile was in there. I got out of there." Lay and Saunders escaped through the tunnel leading to the single access portal. They were followed by Alan Aincham, 19, who had been posted in the passageway to check that workers in the silo carried no matches or articles that could strike a spark. Said Aincham: "It felt like there was a hurricane outside...