Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson controlled the puck in the Bowdoin zone from the opening face-off, and needed little more than two minutes to score. Baldy Smith got his fourth goal in three games on the rebound of Bob Clark's attempted deflection of Gordon Price's slap shot. A few minutes latter, the rookies got their first marker as Sahlin scored on assists from Ken Burnes and Jorge Gonzales...
...which inadvertently bolsters the hated regime of Soviet Puppet Walter Ulbricht. East German citizens oppose the U.S. wheat sale to the Russians because the West did not try to extract political concessions from the Reds in exchange. Talk in Bonn about $100 million in trade credits to the Soviet Zone inspired an avalanche of protest letters from the captive population to friends in the West. "We would starve," said one correspondent, "if we could make the government fall...
...party's left wing, Calwell, who is personally a strong antiCommunist, nevertheless sought to embarrass Menzies by demanding 1) joint control, rather than exclusive U.S. control, of the huge U.S. Navy Communications Center now abuilding on the barren west coast of Australia, 2) a nuclear-free zone in the Southern Hemisphere and 3) recognition of Red China. That, countered Menzies, "would give Peking a smashing victory." Calwell also asked for a treaty with Malaysia, enabling Australian troops to remain in the Malay peninsula. Such a treaty is impossible, Menzies replied, because Malaysia, already accused of "neocolonialism" by Indonesia...
That was not the only time that President Kennedy stood firm before Khrushchev. In 1961, when the Communists sealed off the Eastern zone with the evil Wall in Berlin and seemed ready to block the Western allies from their access routes to West Berlin, Kennedy dispatched then-Vice President Johnson to the scene, sent 1,500 armored troops rolling down the autobahn and beefed up U.S. forces in Germany. Again Khrushchev backed down-and not for the last time...
...team captain Weigel, who cut through the Harvard line for huge hunks of yardage all afternoon, brought the ball to the 30. Doherty overthrew two passes in the end zone, but on third down he turned what looked like a disaster into near triumph for the Elis. Trapped deep behind his own line, he shook off his six tacklers is he plunged his way to the seven-yard line...