Word: groundedness
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When the northeast monsoon begins pelting Con Thien with 20 to 25 inches of rain a month, the Marines and the enemy will both have trouble preventing their sodden fortifications from crumbling. Within three days last month, 18 inches of rain poured down on Con Thien, caving in foxholes. Continuing...
Then the Tigers scored twice and a brawl broke out in the Pennant Grille across from Fenway Park. Two patrol wagons arrived as the crowd retreated to restaurants and store fronts to await the final inning. Then Tiger Dick McAuliffe grounded into a game-ending double play and pandemonium.
Baseball's last legal spitball was thrown by Burleigh Arland Grimes of the New York Yankees on Sept. 20, 1934. Now 74 and a gentleman farmer in Trenton, Mo., Grimes has long since forgotten 1) to whom he threw the ball, and 2) what happened. Calvin Lee Koonce has...
Only three universities-Cornell, Yale and Hawaii-have strong enough studies on Southeast Asia to rate federal support under the National Defense Education Act in a program administered by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Cornell's is considered the best and biggest; it now enrolls 67 graduate...
Died. Evelyn Olliphant de Seversky, 60, wife of Plane Designer Alexander de Seversky and herself a notable aviatrix, a New Orleans socialite who in 1930 took up flying to surprise her husband, by the late '30s was expert enough to help test-fly his planes until a heart condition...