Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second heart attack soon after. When Japanese reinforcements arrived, a major battle developed in which the disease-ridden Marauders (now only 1,310 strong) were ordered to participate with far larger conventional forces of Chinese and British Empire troops. In the desperate Allied effort to hold on, a call for every able-bodied man forced many incapacitated Marauders back to the front line from hospitals in India...
Then the busy priest turned his attention to "that boy," the prince. Father Tuck thought that Rainier should get married, and the romance with Gisèle did not seem likely to lead in that direction. One day the Prince took the priest to call on Gisèle. The three spent a pleasant afternoon together. "What do you think of her?" asked Rainier, on the way back to Monte Carlo...
Dwarfing the Mau Mau. The killers call themselves fellagha (outlaws). They are nationalists-turned-terrorists, who are fast transforming France's most prized colony (technically a part of metropolitan France) into its greatest colonial hazard. In the first nine days of December, in the single departement of Constantine, they stormed five towns and villages, shot up six others, burned 34 houses, farms and schools, chopped down 2,244 vines and fruit trees belonging to French colons, destroyed 458 farm animals, killed or wounded 46 French soldiers, 49 civilians. Last week they ambushed a French armored column and killed...
Marksmen Without Mortars. The revolt that the French refuse to call a war has driven hundreds of French settlers from the irrigated farms they had carved out in the Algerian hills, closed down mines and quarries, converted scores of villages into sandbagged strongpoints. It has sucked into Algeria over 200,000 French troops, including the best part of France's NATO divisions, and the bulk of the colonial army now being brought home from South Viet Nam. By contrast, the fellagha's armed strength is less than 10,000 men, possibly less than 5,000. They have...
...since a prolonged strike of the New York Newspaper Guild drove the Brooklyn Eagle out of business nine months ago, have almost 3,000,000 borough-proud Brooklynites had a daily newspaper they could call their own. Last week the Brooklyn Daily, after five modest years as a neighborhood paper, took on new staffers and features (including some from the Eagle), and expanded to fill a borough-wide role. But it promptly ran into labor trouble. The independent Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union called a boycott to force the new paper to break its distribution contracts and to employ...