Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet fighters might scramble to the attack at a point chosen well in advance. U.S. intelligence officers had warned only the month before that such an incident was imminent. On that clear day last summer, the RB-47 carrying Olmstead, McKone and their companions flew into a well-laid ambush somewhere west of Novaya Zemlya in the Barents...
...bargainers haggled about the price of independence, tension lay over the land. At Baraki, a suburb of Algiers, four Europeans were killed and ten wounded in a fight with Moslems. In an ambush on a mountain road, F.L.N. rebels killed a French army chaplain, two soldiers and four nurses. The morale of Algeria's 1,000,000 Europeans sank lower. There were few purchasers for anything that could not be easily carried. Sales of autos were down as much as 90%. A tractor firm, which a year ago was selling ten machines daily, sold only eight in an entire...
...five miles south of the Red China border, and his second at Muong Sing, 20 mi. to the northwest. He handled as many as 100 outpatients a day, wrote two more books (The Edge of Tomorrow, The Night They Burned the Mountain), and recklessly shrugged off the possibility of ambush as he pushed his Jeep through guerilla-infested jungle on daily house calls. A grateful Laotian government awarded Dooley its highest decoration: the Order of a Million Elephants. When critics argued Dooley was a "hit-and-run" doctor, he obligingly admitted to the charge. When they complained about his arrogance...
...Brazil, the Odax joined Brazil's two subs in a "wolf pack" that attempted to ambush the four-nation exercise fleet. Two Neptunes, one Brazilian and the other U.S., quickly spotted the subs, dived low simulating rocket attacks, called in 13 destroyers of four countries for depth-charge runs. Umpires ruled all three subs sunk. Announced Burke later: "Unitas was a great success. It improved the capabilities of all." Plans for next year: more and bigger joint maneuvers...
...Toast, No Butter. Now and then, of course. Dr. Lenard suffers a slip of the stylus. Forgivably enough, he fumbles a number of Milne's choicer puns ("ambush" as a bush, "issue" as a sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they...