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Word: ammo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hall. Negro Graduate Student Harry Edwards, organizer of last year's Olympic boycott, advised the blacks to take defensive countermeasures. In the dark, they smuggled in a small arsenal of rifles, shotguns and knives. Next day Cornell was treated to the Castroite spectacle of armed students, draped with ammo belts, marching defiantly out of their stronghold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Agony of Cornell | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...some unlikely ingenuity. During the course of the proceedings, there are enough bombings, murders and conflagrations to satisfy the most television-sated kid in the crowd. Even some parents may get a kick out of Bureau, especially if they come prepared with fistfuls of Good and Plenty for ammo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Rainy Day Refuge | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...unit's master mechanic. Just before Port Harcourt fell to the federals early last summer, he scrounged up a convoy of trucks and liberated-under fire -the entire workshop of the Shell-B.P. refinery there. When Aba had to be evacuated last month for lack of ammo, Paddy was one of the last men out, a machine gun in one hand, a demijohn of wine in the other. Captain Armand, a former French paratrooper and veteran of Algeria, sports a Yul Brynner pate and fights on despite bazooka fragments in one hand. Another veteran has just left Steiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: The Mercenaries | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...Berets) is becoming a wellknown cliche, but McGuire slides into this type, probably not as a sham. He is more of a soldier of fortune than soldier, however, for he says he never carried a gun, even for personal protection in Biafra. ("I figured we had enough guns and ammo on the plane already.") He left Biafra at the end of July, after his mother died in the United States and his close call made him suspicious of the safety of the airlift's flying procedures but he wants to return there, this time for expenses only...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Conversation in a L. I. Bar With a Soldier of Fortune | 10/15/1968 | See Source »

...Berets) is becoming a well-known cliche, but McGuire slides into the type, probably not as a sham. He is more a soldier of fortune than soldier, however, for he says he never carried a gun, even for personal protection in Biafra. ("I figured we had enough guns and ammo on the plane already.") He left Biafra at the end of July, after his mother died in the United States and his close call made him suspicious of the safety of the airlift's flying procedures but he wants to return there, this time for expenses only...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Conversation in a L.I. Bar With a Soldier of Fortune | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

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