Word: convoying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of cheering, the Turkish Cypriots cursed. One shouted, "We are Turks, and we will die before we accept food from Makarios!" Another grumbled that the food was probably poisoned. The convoy commander, a young Finnish lieutenant of the U.N. peacekeeping force, was appalled. "Your attitude is inhuman," he said. "There are starving babies in Kokkina." A Turk replied, "The whole blockade is inhuman. We don't want Makarios to make propaganda by giving us food. We will leave it on the road or throw it into...
Slick as Ice. If Tony Lema had eve served on convoy duty in World War II, he might have known what to expect. At 30, he was far too young, am what's more, he had never even seen th Old Course before. Neither had Jack Nicklaus, 24, whose $24,000 victor the week before in the Whitemarsh Open put him back on top of pro golf's money-winning list (with $81,718) demonstrated that he was once more at the peak of his game-and persuaded British bookies to install him as the favorite...
...guerrilla war, the Viet Cong distinguished themselves with one of their grisliest blows. Ambushing a truck convoy transporting twoscore women and children in the central mountains, 150 Communist terrorists shot or stabbed to death six women and five children, wounded 21 other women. Then the Reds mutilated several of the bodies, carving out the victims' hearts and spleens. The government retaliated with less savage successes of its own. Three hundred miles north of Saigon, Rangers overran a Viet Cong ordnance depot, capturing 166 weapons, TNT, and 1,000 detonators. Twenty miles north of the capital, a self-defense corps...
...packed off with two younger sisters to live with relatives in Great Falls, Mont. When the U.S. entered World War I, he quit the eighth grade and ran away from home, got into the Navy just before he was 15 by lying about his age. He served on convoy duty in the Atlantic for ten months, later served in both the Army and the Marines. By the time he was 19, Mike had served in three branches of the armed forces, never rising above the rank of private first class, and was the youngest Montanan in the war. He still...
Listening to all this in their temporary prison over the square, the hostages hopefully rounded up their things but dared make no move while for 51 hours the miners milled around outside. Finally, at 7 p.m., Rifkin led the charge down the stairs, into the waiting convoy of government vehicles, and away down the hill...