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...became nationally known and was rewarded the Pulitzer Prize for his critical on-the-ground coverage of the rise and fall of the American-backed South Vietnamese government...
...greens did different things and even if you did exactly what you wanted, you could get different results.” Still, Harvard would not be deterred in its opener. After succumbing to a rainout the previous week, the women played through the remnants of winter and gave little ground to the Bears or the Big Green. In particular, Sheldon praised her team’s ability to weather the mental obstacle of an unpredictable course. “When you are executing and not getting results, you can get down on yourself,” Sheldon explained...
...Possession has been something coach has been harping on us for the past couple weeks,” junior midfielder Max Motschwiller said. “It’s been a problem in all of our games, whether it’s been clearing ground balls, faceoffs, the offense just holding onto the ball—that’s going to be a key for us.” And Smith didn’t get any aid from the wing players, who usually step in to help out a faceoff man having a rough outing...
...have a national slogan: Build the Socialist Countryside!" explained Sun Hai Yan, a member of the local government in Huaxi. "Others build socialism on the ground. We go one step further and build a new socialism...
...Richthofen legend was always more pronounced outside of Germany, in any case. A great deal was made in Britain, for example, of his supposed chivalry, a salutory example of the "good German." And it is true that on three occasions he waved his enemy to the ground rather than shooting them out of the sky. (In one case, seeing that an enemy pilot's gun had jammed, Von Richthofen waved him down to the ground, jumped out, shook his hand and then took off again.) But in other respects, Von Richthofen was "cold-blooded," says Castan. "He was mainly interested...