Word: swiftness
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Yale and Brown rely on swift forwards to score on length-of-the-field fast breaks, the weapon that crushed Harvard last season as well as last Saturday. (Dartmouth relies on its defense, and hardly ever scores...
...flop. The objective was a sprawl of scrub-grown hills known as "the Crow's Foot," and the mounts were hulking, olive-drab helicopters. Not a single cavalryman carried a saber; instead they cradled automatic rifles in their arms. No plumed, defiant enemy fell to their swift assault, only 47 scrawny, half-naked guerrillas. Yet in its unromantic rendezvous with the Viet Cong last week, the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) was far more effective than anything recorded in the dancing dactyls of Tennyson...
Leap & Smash. Since the 18,000 men of the Air Cav arrived in Viet Nam just a year ago, they have killed more than 5,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops, and lost only 900 dead of their own. Their swift sorties into the Red-dominated central highlands have captured 1,200 other Communist troops, along with some 2,000 weapons. Chinese-manufactured machine guns line the walk leading to Air Cav Major General John Norton's headquarters located near An Khe, a proud display of hard-won enemy weaponry. Air Cav troopers, using the strategy of General...
...year-old Writer-Director Miles Forman appears to have put it together without quite realizing the strength of his perceptions. The seeming simplicity conceals extraordinary skill: Forman observes small human aspirations very precisely, then borrows the style of a documentary to carve out a comic slice of life in swift, easy strokes...
...Happened Here. The German conquest of Britain was bloody but swift. By the end of 1941 the entire island was occupied, and by 1943 the nation had been transformed into a corporate state. British industry was retooled to supply the Wehrmacht, British "volunteers" were fighting on the Russian front. Faced with a Reich that seemed likely indeed to last a thousand years, the country wavered and wondered if it might not be wiser to join the enemy it could not beat...