Word: bren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reds' light, mustard-colored uniforms were generally clean, and the men were well armed with Bren guns, Tommy guns, modern rifles (some of Japanese make, some U.S.). They carried pouches of hand grenades at their belts, bandoleers of cartridges across their shoulders. Many were exhausted. At every halt, soldiers slumped in doorways and on sidewalks. One tall native of Shantung looked up wearily: "What day is it today? We've been walking and fighting for eight days...
Here & there police and soldiers, armed with Sten and Bren guns, did their best to herd the homeless into improvised stockades to protect them from the blacks. From one stockade the panicked Indians tried to escape by jumping from a 500-foot cliff as a swarm of Zulus bore down on them screaming shrill battle cries...
...police rounded up the third man and handcuffed him along with six women and another man found in the house. We were just about to leave when the whole hollow suddenly exploded with a blast of Bren guns, Sten guns, and rifles firing in rapid bursts. Bullets spat in the dirt and sizzled through the grass. Two hand grenades exploded, as a third bounced harmlessly on the ground...
Flag Up. A few hours after Cunningham left the docks at Haifa, 400 Jews gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum under the watchful eyes of Haganah Bren-gunners. The 13 men who would rule the new Jewish state sat down at a long table on a raised dais. Over their heads were white Zionist flags bearing two pale blue stripes and a blue Star of David. The assemblage rose to sing the Zionist anthem Hatikvah-"The ancient longing will be fulfilled, to return to the land ... of our fathers...
...correspondents paying exorbitant prices to sleep four in a room in the Philadelphia Hotel. The streets are crowded with Arab Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars. Through this tangled mass, a Legion jeep, mounting a Bren gun and a loud horn, clears the way for three white-helmeted motorcyclists preceding King Abdullah's lordly Cadillac...