Word: bayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans returned up the slope to link with the shattered company coming down. They made it only because one soldier, wounded in both legs and disobeying orders to retreat, propped himself and his machine gun up in the middle of the trail. He held the Communist attackers at bay until his company got away, gunning down an estimated 17 before slumping dead over his smoking barrel. The beleaguered battalion regrouped and called in air strikes. As the jets roared in at 500 feet to blast the top of the hill, one released a 500-or 750-lb. bomb too soon...
When the Conference opened, Nigria was in civil war, the Federal Government contending with two breakaway states. The Congo was struggling with a handful of white mercenaries and their rebel Katangese troops, who had managed to keep the Federal forces numbering 15,000 at bay for three months. Rumors of a plot to overthrow President Nyerere of Tanzania were circulating from ex-Vice President Kambona, in London for "health reasons." Serious Shifta terrorism occupied the Kenya army in the Northeastern Province along the border, while the ruling KANU party was denying that elections would be advanced from...
...securities he recommended for widows and orphans soon became known as "laughing stocks." When he grins into his stricken father's oxygen tent and says, "My God! You must have a strong heart to stand all this," it is a bravely joshing effort to keep mortality at bay...
...Boston Opera Company at Back Bay Theatre...
...colossal chug of wine which is going to work on his insides; when the trombones blast, you know that Ford is feeling the full gamut of green-eyed emotions, even without hearing him rant about "Gelosia"; and if you are a little pedantic, when you hear the French horns bay, you will think of the cuckold's horns which the anti-Falstaffians are about to plant on Falstaff's head...