Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Randolph with 80 planes, the heavy cruisers Salem and Macon, and about twelve destroyers. Task Forces 61 and 62 are amphibious groups that can put ashore a reinforced Marine battalion that will soon be equipped with atomic rocket weapons. Task Force 66, recently detached, but on constant call, is a submarine hunter-killer group led by Antietam, a 30,000-ton attack carrier with 80 planes. All together, this taut and lethal fleet consumes more than 50,000 tons of fuel per month. Although NATO supply bases are available for emergencies, the U.S. Navy expects that they will be easy...
...after Christmas, or "we will take whatever action is necessary." Late Christmas night six or more dynamite sticks blasted the Shuttlesworth house. Miraculously, Shuttlesworth and his family escaped serious hurt. Shuttlesworth next day led some 150 of his followers in broad-scale, nonsegregated bus riding, later was persuaded to call off the drive after 22 Negroes were arrested for Jim Crow violations...
...were sitting around everywhere. Many were sleeping on the floor." Sweating it out, Peter had time to think about the consequences of what he had done. He decided to go home. He told his wife he had been working all this time. But when he heard the official radio call the Freedom Fighters "counterrevolutionaries and fascists," he knew there would be reprisals, and he returned to the barracks, determined to fight it out. At the barracks, with everyone expecting the worst, the tall colonel told them that they were not counter-revolutionaries but only people who wanted truth and freedom...
...eldest son's restiveness. For the moment the headlines on the news vendor's sign just across the street seemed remote and unimportant. BRITISH OFFICER KIDNAPED IN PORT SAID, they read. It wasn't until after he reached his hotel and got an emergency call from Leeds that Francis Moorhouse learned that his son had found the moment of excitement he sought...
...Name It. In Graham, N.C., History Teacher Wilton Hawkins apologized under pressure to the city council for including in a final examination a multiple choice question: "The Graham City Council is largely composed of A) Idiots; B) Ignoramuses; C) Ne'er-Do-Wells; D) You call...