Word: airstrip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Owerri but lack strength to wipe out the pocket and push south toward the oil town of Port Harcourt. Last week, in an offensive obviously timed for Wilson's visit, Nigerians launched a general attack in the north that carried them closer to Biafra's lone airstrip at Uli. Unless it is totally successful and quickly ends the war, the humane solution would be a truce...
...Brutish British. Anguilla was ready: a flotilla of lobster smacks, so one story went, would wake the island by blowing horns when a British ship appeared. A herd of goats was supposedly assigned to clog the airstrip, and there was desultory talk of using sharp rocks to block island beaches against infiltrators. Undaunted, the British mustered a force of about 300 men, including the Red Devils, a Royal Marine platoon and bobbies from Scotland Yard, to set up a pacification program. When the British surged ashore, automatic weapons at the ready, there were only a few children to meet them...
...print and mail out more than 55 million pieces of literature every year. TV and radio technicians stand by to prepare Allen's daily radio broadcasts (58 stations) and weekly television programs (43 stations). There is a record company (47 albums of sermons and gospel music), an airstrip (Cessna 150 at the ready), and a barnlike, 3,000-capacity church to hold the faithful who come by train, plane, bus and auto to attend each of Allen's twice-yearly, 17-day camp meetings. For those who want to stay, there is even a subdivision called Miracle Valley...
...build a typical Hollywood set somewhere in Florida, with a nice 10,000-ft. airstrip and an air terminal with a big sign reading HABANA splashed across the front of it, staffed with a group of Miami Cubans making like Havana Cubans, guns and all? Our airliners could land there in confidence...
...been led to believe, but indeed a neutral. Love blossoms. The spies are trapped with a radio and a trunkful of gold, and their plot is foiled. But the ambassadress must leave, and she flies off into the twilight as the hero stands at mournful attention on the airstrip...