Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jones pulled back but decided to go in for a second try, hoping to lift the pilot out of his foxhole with a sling. "I was hovering over the pilot with the hoist sling down," Jones reported later, "but he gave me a frantic wave-off, as small arms fire opened up all around us . . . I heard bullets hitting the helicopter and gas fumes began to fill the cockpit ... I think he knew that he was done for and didn't want us to get it too. He just wouldn't take the sling...
...March 1, 1919, people gathered throughout Korea to hear the Declaration of Independence read, to wave their forbidden Korean flags and to shout "Mansei." Then they were supposed to disperse quietly and go home. In many places they never got a chance to disperse quietly. Japanese troops charged into crowds, shooting, swinging swords and mutilating their victims with firemen's hooks. In the bloody week of Japanese "mopping up" operations, it was estimated that 200,000 Koreans had been arrested, 7,000 killed...
...thought Vag, how can one remain impartial in a football stadium on a brisk fall day? Is it not better to cast logic to the winds and wave the dear old flag and be bloody but unbowed...
...with a red feather in his hat will walk across the Lars Anderson bridge, he will enter his section of the stands and wave at a few acquaintances. He will look out on the field and see Ernie Horween or Eddie Mahan or Charlie Brickley. He'll watch the game and won't remember the score...
...receiving unit consisted of tackles Stargel and Culolias, guards Heidtmann, and Rosenau, and center O'Brien up front; ends Ravreby and Paul Crowley and quarterback Gil O'Neil formed the next wave. Warden and Isenberg were at halfbacks and fullback Jerry Blitz was the deep...