Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parrot's first marker, a chippy from the cage corner, tied the contest after 33 seconds of third period play. One minute later the sophomore center drilled in his second from eight feet on a neat setup by wing Ben Smith on a 2-on-1 breakaway...
...Harvard pared the deficit with five minutes to play in the first period, when Garrity stole the puck at the Indian blue line and fed Bob Fredo, breaking in all alone on Cruikshank. The sophomore wing faked Cruikshank down from the left, then carried the puck across the crease and flipped it into the right side above the goalie's extended...
...Operation Double Eagle, dovetailing on the north with White Wing, made up of 5,000 U.S. Marines off amphibious assault craft driving south and west toward the Communist enclave of An Lao valley, with flanking support from 2,000 government soldiers...
Pleasant Living. Far and away the most important operation was White Wing, led by 1st Air Cav Colonel Hal G. Moore, 43, a lean, laconic Kentuckian who earned a battlefield promotion at bloody la Drang last November. In that fight, he held together a single infantry battalion surrounded by three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars. This time he was the aggressor, leading the largest allied force of the war: five infantry battalions, four artillery battalions, plus a team of combat engineers and a troop of aerial reconnaissance men, all riding the helicopters of the most mobile force warfare has ever...
...General Dynamics, revitalized after the largest loss ever suffered by a U.S. corporation ($135 million in 1961), last year won a $1.7 billion production contract for its controversial F-111 (born TFX) adjustable-wing Air Force-Navy fighter. The company also garnered development awards to convert it into a spy plane and a bomber to replace the Strategic Air Command's B-52. Though its Convair division in San Diego still limps, G.D. has a near-record backlog of nuclear-submarine orders, is busy producing antiaircraft and ship-to-air missiles...