Word: yds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were in a very bad position, pinned down on the beach, with a German division in front of us and only water behind us. We had 7 yds. of beachhead with no cover; the highest thing around was a shale rock. The only way to get off the beach was to blow up a big tank trap that was blocking our way. Finally one of our guys took the trap out with a bangalore torpedo ((a metal tube packed with high explosives)). They sent me to find our commander, Colonel George Taylor, and tell him we'd opened a breach...
...yds. of bare beach to cross, and nowhere to hide. There were people falling around us. I was carrying a good stock of morphine and bulky bandages powdered with sulfonamides. I had instructions not to stop for anybody until we made it to the casino, which the Germans had turned into a bunker. But I made an exception for Lieut. Commander Philippe Kieffer because I thought it was a good idea to hang on to our leader. He took some shrapnel, so I bandaged him quickly and gave him some morphine...
...anywhere." He dazzled them with statistics: 72% of the students in Who's Who Among American High School Students are virgins; immigrants have four times as much chance to become millionaires as native-born Americans. "Listen to this," he said; "67% of all golf strokes are made within 60 yds. of the hole, but if you go out and watch golfers practice, I guarantee you they will spend 80% of their time concentrating on shots longer than 60 yds. The least effective people spend their time on actions that are not productive but which they are most comfortable doing...
...maybe not. Up on remote Garrett Mountain, the local police, FBI and ! National Guard have been searching the grounds around Potts' cabin for the past three weeks, ever since the body of 19-year-old Robert Earl Jines, his head bashed in, was discovered in a shallow grave 75 yds. away. Potts, 50, a wiry, intense man, is the prime suspect in Jines' murder, as well as the death of up to 14 others. The murders stretch back 15 years and all the way to New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida. Potts denies involvement in all these murders...
...that may weigh more than a ton. Her powerful jaws and daggerlike teeth can rip the victim's throat or sever its spinal column, making quick work of the kill. But there will be no killing at this moment. After padding along a park road for a mere 100 yds., the tigress abruptly melts into the brush -- here one instant, gone the next. Watching her disappear, Indian biologist Ullas Karanth of New York's Wildlife Conservation Society, breaks into a knowing smile. "When you see a tiger," he muses, "it is always like a dream...