Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week. I told Mom I might not give her the air dates for those particular scenes." Not to worry. Former First Lady Betty Ford remains unruffled; last year she gave her unflagging support to Steve during a paternity case that was eventually settled out of court. CBS can count on former President Gerald Ford to up his audience...
Dracula. An affable count of the title achieves celebrity status in his Transylvania community by becoming the first citizen to show up when the new blood bank holds its first blood-donation...
...national wash of relief and welcome. Hardly any Americans thought much then, or even afterward, about Dresden blasted, Hamburg gone, Hiroshima and Nagasaki reduced to radioactive powder. All of those American firestorms had, of course, consumed innocent civilians. But, the ceremonies said, never mind, evil went down for the count. Ego te absolvo. You boys did what you had to do. Where were you anyway?the Bulge? Anzio? Tarawa? Iwo? Say, that must have been tough. Tell me about it. Let me buy you another...
Mitchell went back to Viet Nam for a second tour in 1967, this time as a lieutenant assigned to a combat squad. "The big thing when I came back," he recalls, "was the body count. It put pressure on you to kill." One day Mitchell was running a search-and-destroy mission in the Central Highlands. "As we approached the village," he says, "we drew fire. The shooting got started good. Then we got into the village and started going through it, house by house. I was searching one of the houses, when I saw a movement...
...hall and place a bomb in a trash basket near the podium. At 9:05 p.m. on June 28th, about 15 minutes after Beheshti had begun to speak, the charges went off simultaneously. When the dust and debris had finally settled, a stunned and at first unbelieving count of the bodies began. There were plenty of white cloths in which to bind the wounded; rescuers simply unwound their long turbans...