Word: colon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came the bombs. The Maroc-Presse was a special target; the managing editor was threatened, the executive editor driven from Morocco by bombings and machine-gun attempts on himself and his family. The counterterrorists operated with the obvious sympathy of diehard colon organizations such as the Présence Française. When one suspected killer eluded police questioning, it was discovered later that he had driven off in a red sports car belonging to a prominent physician and Présence Française leader and had holed up for several weeks at the physician's estate...
Point of Departure. Faure was well aware that his field of choice was narrow. Fail to satisfy the colons' demands, and he might bring his own downfall at the hands of the 50 Deputies, headed by ex-Premier René Mayer, who represent the rich pro-colon lobby in the Assembly. Fail to satisfy the demands of the Arab moderates, and France might eventually lose all North Africa...
...year old Revolutionary General Miguel Flores Villar-who in his day saw priests hunted down and convents burned-spotted a fully garbed Sister of Charity bustling through Mexico City and ordered the police to arrest her. They did because they had to, but at the police station Sister Guadalupe Colon was immediately released. The incident was typical of the state's changing attitude toward religion...
...possible for any sane man to read more than half of it. And the other half isn't worth reading." He himself peppers his people with brief machine-gun bursts of confident prose. One sentence makes a paragraph. the two favorite marks of punctuation are the colon and period. A typical beginning: "Let us look at the facts: the facts are these." He sent a memo to British officers at SHAPE...
...trip from Callao to Balboa, Panama, through the Canal to Colon proved eventless. The Carribean, then in the middle of the September hurrican season, was placid. The boat's first stop was Key West, then Miami. Here they had their first run-in with two American institutions: the press and tumbling bureacracy...