Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting was often bitter-end, even by modern standards: American volunteer suicide squads were killed or wounded almost to a man in breaching the British defenses at Stony Point; Americans, Indians and British troops, their flintlocks useless from rain, milled in wild combat with knife, musket butt and tomahawk at Oriskany in the New York wilderness. Cowpens, Brandywine, Germantown-all were bloody. The revolution pitted strange adversaries. At Eutaw Springs, the American force was heavily loaded with British deserters, the British force with American deserters. Kilted Scottish-American settlers fought for the king with broadswords at Moore's Creek...
Funnyman Brown, 60, takes his new job on Manhattan's station WPIX with deadly seriousness: "I love baseball, and I'm never going to make it the butt of my jokes." Joe broadcasts pre-game and post-game interviews, plus three innings of play-by-play on TV, and two innings on radio. His delivery is intensely partisan ("Come on, you Yankees, get those bats off your shoulders!"), and he sometimes drifts from the action on the diamond into patriotic outbursts ("I've seen plenty of other countries, but believe me, America is the best...
Dissolution automatically canceled the seats of all Red Senators "by right," and the Communists roared with anger. De Gasperi replied: "We have been the target of attacks, the butt of calumny and insults for days and nights, weeks and months. We kept silent . . . This reserve of ours may have made our opponents believe that we lacked both arguments and courage. I hope they have been enlightened...
...half of them would be thieves ... I myself . . . will slaughter cattle in the Avenida General Paz, and give meat away free." To get meat to markets, he threatened to "use troops to storm the cattle ranches." As for black-marketing butchers, "I will make them obey by the rifle butt...
...interrogator shouted with excitement, and rushed to a phone to tell his superiors what a fancy bird had dropped into their laps. From that moment von Einsiedel got the best of care-Russian style. In the next two days he was beaten up only once (with a gun butt), and once was stood before a firing squad (but that was just a joke: after firing over his head, the Russians roared with laughter...