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...approximately the same time, a battalion of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division rolled out of San Isidro airbase, 14 miles away on the other side of the city. Linking up with loyal Dominican troops, the G.I.s drove up to the bridge spanning the Ozama River ?and into another volley of rebel fire. Three hours passed and the casualty toll mounted to 20 wounded before the U.S. forces could declare their objectives secured: the paratroopers to clear the approaches to the Duarte Bridge into Santo Domingo, the marines to carve a 3.5-sq.-mi. "international zone" out of the city...
Hashim, now a little slower than his nephew, but no less a shotmaker, varied the pace to hold Mohibulla back. He mixed drives and drops with his pet shot--a volley nick that just rools off the side wall...
...dervish's pace. But it is Neil Simon's comic freshness of vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send a suicide telegram? Can you imagine getting a thing like that? You have...
...roared off seconds ahead of them in a sports car with her mother. Khanh ordered three battalions of loyal troops to move on the capital, while Ky dispatched a loudspeaker plane, which droned overhead, pleading, "Brother must not fight against brother." Next morning the rebels fled before a volley of three rifle shots that whizzed harmlessly overhead; not a drop of blood was spilled...
...scrappy Gay slowly pulled away until he had a commanding 12-7 lead. Morris, starting to concentrate on power strokes, fought back to 12-11. Gay won the next point on a corner drop, but his opponent could not be stopped now. A blazing crosscourt backhand and a volley down the line made the score 13-13. Five straight points by Morris then gave him the game...