Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Military briefings are meant to be not only as dramatic as possible but redolent with knowing jargon. One of the more ingenious examples of the craft takes place on a windswept crag overlooking the Demilitarized Zone in Korea. For the benefit of important visitors, a demonstration of enemy tactics is staged by G.I.s. Playing the part of North Koreans, they slip up to some barbed wire surrounded by mock-up mines. One G.I. snips the wire with a captured enemy wire cutter, thus demonstrating how North Koreans make sneak attacks on U.S. and South Korean patrols. During the show...
...Ordway returned just after the second half kickoff, and Harvard stayed in command. But Brown kicked deep into the Crimson end zone, and when a Harvard back reached to touch it down and rescue the squad from trouble, it slithered out of his grasp along the spongy turf. A Bruin rugger fell on it, and suddenly...
...Harvard died near the goal line and a pass by Smith sailed over Hornblower in the end zone, so Richie Szaro came in to kick a five-yard field goal...
Early in the final quarter, however, the Terriers started from midfield and continually ripped through the right side of the Harvard defense for 45 yards on the 50-yard drive to the end zone...
Barry Malinowsky was the next to score as he intercepted a pass and ran 60 yards into the end zone. The conversion kick failed for the second time...