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...Long rifle" bullets are the most lethal of three types commonly used in .22-caliber weapons. "Shorts" are tiny, "longs" the intermediate size. Hollow-nosed bullets are particularly vicious because they spread on impact, enlarging the area of damage...
More than that, people with contacts in Washington can sense the mood of that city well--it is vicious. Washington in May--in any other year a beautiful place for a campaign--is in 1968 angry and gloomy and brutal...
Beyond that, the city is not ready for reconciliation, much less progress. It is above all scared and vicious. That is not a good environment for any kind of campaign. It is a horrible environment for a disorganized campaign that is not sure where it is going...
Bamboo Breathing. After two days of fighting, the Marines took the village, only to be driven back by a vicious Communist counterattack. Next day the Marines drove through Dai Do again-and again the North Vietnamese drove them back, supported by 130-mm. guns firing from North Viet Nam. But it was the 320th's last lunge. Under artillery and air strikes, it was forced to retreat northward, leaving 856 of its dead behind, as U.S. jets pursued and pounded its remnants. The Marines lost 68 dead, had 323 wounded seriously enough to require evacuation...
...last suspicious Derby, albeit a more picturesque one, was run in 1933, when the jockeys on the two leading horses--Broker's Tip and Head Play--engaged in a vicious battle in the stretch, pulling at each other's reins and whipping each other. Broker's Tip finished first and the stewards allowed the race to stand. He never won another race...