Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...careless play in the defensive zone killed the Crimson rally. Althouse, playing wing, stole the puck in the Harvard zone and scored unassisted at 9:47. It was his second goal, and it proved to be the winning...
...would seem to have little in common with Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer of the jaw that is prevalent among children in tropical Africa. Yet last week top researchers from eleven countries journeyed to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to pool their knowledge of both diseases. Some temperate-zone doctors suspect that both cancers may be caused by viruses, and they hoped, by studying the tropical lymphoma, to pick up tips on the "blood cancer" they call leukemia...
...were assembling in the highlands. "I gave them their head," recalls Westmoreland, "and told them their mission was to pursue and destroy the enemy." In the foothills of the Chu Pong massif, practically in Cambodia's backyard, the brigade found its quarry. Helilifted to a spot called Landing Zone X Ray, a battalion of cavalrymen found itself smack in the midst of the 66th North Vietnamese regiment. One platoon was cut off on a ridge and badly mauled. Two others were lured into a trap and wiped out; some of the U.S. wounded were shot or decapitated...
Jungle to Z.I. Behind the heroism of Medical Corpsman Reid and his buddies stretches an elaborate, efficient and increasingly swift chain of medical services-all the way from Dr. Shucart and his fellow surgeons in the jungle to "Z.I." (zone of the interior, meaning the U.S.). And the statistics of survival testify to the operation's success. In World War I, the fatality rate was 5.5% of the wounded; in World War II, 3.3%; in Korea, 2.7%. In Viet Nam, estimates Commander Almon C. Wilson, head of the 3rd Medical Battalion at Danang, it is below...
...their personalities (Does he rattle when razzed?) -and he scouts important opponents for weeks ahead of time. Scheduled to play U.C.L.A.'s defending N.C.A.A. champions twice this month, Bubas ordered his varsity to practice against a six-man team of scrubs that faithfully copied U.C.L.A.'s unusual "zone press" defense. Compared to those workouts, the five-man Bruins were a breeze. Duke won both games...