Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sample: about dawn one day last month 47 newly commissioned West Point second lieutenants streamed into the Ranger school dugout on a mountain near Dahlonega in the rugged forest of North Georgia. For 72 hours they had dodged and fought blank-firing Aggressor troops (Russian-like insignia and uniforms) across 50 miles of tangled underbrush. By map and compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken...
...Seventh Army in West Germany, effective instrument of close-in engagement, works at the diverse, contradictory problems of cold-war alertness in the nuclear age. The Seventh has to be ready, perhaps for years to come, for instant attack from the nuclear-armed U.S.S.R. land and air forces poised across the border. It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area. Senior officers roam distant outposts to make unannounced tests of how fast and accurately the outposts could report a Russian tank attack to Army headquarters...
...jukeboxes across the big, muddy, thawing Alaskan tundra last week, a top pop was Alaska, the Forty-Ninth Star, sung by Anchorage Entertainer-Bartender Freddie Beardon on the new Igloo label (made in Anchorage). And it came close to capturing the confidence and cockiness of Alaskans (We have riches untold-there's oil, fish and gold), hustling toward the greatest summer ever. Some northern high lights...
...death throes of Tibet were made graphic as some 7,000 rebel refugees surged across the border into India. Many were wounded; some still carried the weapons with which they had futilely battled the Red Chinese. At Misamari, an abandoned Indian airport that was used in World War II as a take-off point for flying over the Hump into China, work is being rushed on a refugee camp, a hospital and maternity station. Unlike the Hungarian refugees, who were easily absorbed in Western countries, Tibetans may have serious difficulty adjusting to any society more complex than their...
Summoned to Congress by a Senate debate on the bloody civil war plus banditry that has scattered nearly 300,000 bodies across Colombia (pop. 13.5 million) in eleven years, Minister of Government Guillermo Amaya last week coolly proved that the flow of blood is ebbing. During the first six months of 1958, said Amaya, 3,198 people were slaughtered in backlands violence-an average of 15.2 a day.* In the past six months the death toll shrank to 841, and by March the daily killing average was down to four...