Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When night fell rifles passed through the hands of muttering veterans rallying in front of G.I. election headquarters. A block away a movie marquee blazed its attraction: Gunning for Vengeance. Shadowy figures soon lurked along the ivy-covered ridge overlooking the two-story brick jail. A pale yellow light gleamed...
Meanwhile Russian troops lived off the land as they had in wartime. They continued to send back to Russia bicycles, threadbare clothing, other poor possessions of the masses of poor Germans. In twelve months they took more than half of their zone's current industrial production as reparations. Americans...
Heads Up. On a blistering morning last month, a small army of Tudeh pickets deployed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s plant in Abadan on the Persian Gulf, and paralyzed one of the world's biggest refineries, chief source of the British Navy's fuel. Their...
Lieut. Douglas A. Cowin's 42-man Marine detachment had a routine mission: to carry six truckloads of supplies up the 75-mile route from Tientsin to Peiping. Because they had been fired on before in this area, bitterly contested by Chinese Communist and Nationalist armies, the marines traveled...
More than 20,000 British troops in maroon berets clamped a cordon around Tel-Aviv, flower of Zionism, while patrol boats sealed the harbor. The all-Jewish population of 200,000 was put tinder a 22-hour curfew. Then the troops moved in with tanks and armored cars, and searched...