Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fatal Gap. Smith v. Smith became Smith v. the 27th (and, finally, the Army as a whole). Twelve days after Ralph Smith was replaced, two of the 27th's battalion commanders settled down for the night without bothering to cover a 300-yard gap between their flanks. Though forewarned, the ailing regimental commander never bothered to check up on his front lines. Through that gap the Japs rammed their last, desperate banzai charge...
...hardly a city in Massachusetts or one in the rest of the U.S. in which the conditions of housing are not essentially worse than those, at which the Shattuck report * directed severe criticism." In Washington, D.C., he added, 100,000 people draw their drinking water from hydrants in the yard and use outdoor privies. There are almost 6,000 communities in the U.S. with no public water system, more than 9,000 without sewerage systems; in 8,300 communities, where some 70 million people live, there are no modern facilities for collecting and getting rid of garbage...
...complete story of how eight students from the Massachusetts institute of Technology slipped into Soldiers Field last. Tuesday night and planted explosives that if detonated would have initialed the 60-yard line with the letters "MIT" was disclosed last night...
...raining when the opening whistle blew. It began to sleet in the second quarter, when Foley threw a 25-yard pass to end Don Daughters for six points. Yale reared back to score, and seemed sure to kick the extra point, but All-East guard Al Kevorkian crashed through to save the half-time...
...climax came with less than a minute to play. Yale got the ball down to the Crimson's two-yard line. They tried three times over the center, and each time Captain Dolph Cheek and Coady, an inspired tackle, stopped the rushes. Then, with Yale in the huddle on fourth down the clock ran out on them. The final score...