Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perry Dean Ross of nearby Tatum, the driver of the car, put it later in his signed confession: "I held the steering wheel with my left hand and laid the gun (a Mossberg .22 automatic rifle] across the left door. I was going about 85 miles per hour at the time and I fired nine shots into the cafe." One of the slugs entered the head of a 16-year-old Negro, John Earl Reese, who died the next morning. Two others struck and wounded a pair of Negro girls, 13 and 15. That was 18 months...
...punch by signaling for a rising at the army's Zerka headquarters. Then, taking the untrustworthy Abu Nuwar with him, he rushed out to confront the rampaging Bedouins, narrowly saved his quaking general from being shot, and won wild cheers from the tribesmen by leaping atop an armored car and shouting: "If you do not want me as your King, I will...
...King pounded the table and shouted: "I'm King! I do what I want! This is my country. I will join the Baghdad Pact, if I want. I will invite Richards to come here, if I want. This is my country." Hayari saluted and took off by car for Damascus, leaving his letter of resignation behind him, and proclaiming, when he got to Syria, that the U.S. was spending fabulous sums in Jordan "to buy traitors." After naming a more compliant Bedouin to be chief of staff, Hussein ordered a purge of 60 army officers ("Replace them with sergeants...
...places of exile. In their absence Molotov, one of the editors of Pravda, gave out Bolshevik policy: Demand the complete Marxist program forthwith. When the big Bolsheviks arrived, they pooh-poohed the youthful (27) Molotov's naive and uncompromising view. But when Lenin stepped out of his railroad car in the Finland Station, having been transported through Germany in a sealed car, it was seen that Molotov had been right: Lenin demanded "immediate peace [with Germany], bread and land," the whole Marxist book, and a little more besides...
...party had to follow. This was assisted by the articles and letters Lenin used to send to Pravda from abroad." Having indicated how things stood between himself and Lenin, Molotov goes on: "In the square outside the station I heard Lenin's first speech, made from an armored car. Such moments are never repeated. Lenin then went to the Kshesinsky Palace and there had "his first talk with us, the Petrograd party officials. We few dozen Bolsheviks listened to Lenin, taking in every remark as it revealed to us in a new light the meaning of the revolutionary events...