Word: zone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viets have flak guns," he replied. "It gives you some interesting sensations. Forgive us please, messieurs, there's no sugar for the coffee." Sergeant K. interrupted: "It's tougher on the ground." Sergeant H. continued: "Last night we had to make six passes over the drop zone. The first one was O.K. Then the Viets spotted us. Tracers came up zzzt zzzt zzzt all around us. Our plane was hit 13 times." That sort of shooting at night is conclusive evidence that the Viet Minh gunners have Chinese radar. Said Sergeant K.: "They shoot with a Chinese accent...
...Flick of Death. The night was cloudless but hazy. The four main French strong points were blacked out except for shielded lights in a special pattern to guide Banjo One, Two & Co. into the drop zone. From Luciole, the zone looked pitifully small-500 meters at the southern end of the main airstrip-and the slightest miscalculation of wind or navigation could make a parachute, whatever its cargo, drift into the barbed wire or the Viet Minh lines. At intervals of a few seconds, sometimes minutes, there were more lights-delicate white fragments in the blackness. Some were Viet shells...
...drop planes went in. Paratroopers leaped out to reinforce the garrison. At 2350, air-ground liaison reported: "So far, all goes well. Every stick has hit the drop zone." Luciole lazed on through...
...hears most is pride. It hardly seems enough, except that this is a special kind of pride. It is compounded of qualities like the insistence of De Gaulle in World War II on parity with Roosevelt and Churchill; it recalls France's insistence on a special German occupation zone and its determination to be acknowledged as a world power-as one of the Big Three. Now that Germany is resurgent, that power and pride are endangered. If France were to withdraw from Indo-China, it would in effect contract itself to a nation with only an African empire...
...halftime, Bradley's big Braves held a 43-42 lead, seemed on the trail of another upset. But during a dressing-room dressing-down, La Salle Coach Ken Loeffler gave Gola & Co. new tactics: switch from man-to-man defense to a zone defense. The switch worked wonders. Bradley, which had been sinking 37% of its shots, suddenly could not find the range. Meanwhile, Gola & Co. went on a scoring spree-30 points in ten minutes-and won by an easy...