Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Universal military training was not included in the bill. U.M.T. appeared to be dead. Many Congressmen had become convinced that U.M.T. is a good way to build up military strength in "normal peacetime," but that in a crisis selective service is the only quick way to get a larger Army. They preferred to spend the money on an expanded Air Force, and raise it from 55 to 70 groups...
...Republic. Their banners bore an almost forgotten legend: I.W.W. Most New Yorkers, if they remembered the Industrial Workers of the World at all, thought that it had long ago gone down history's drain. As a labor union and a militant revolutionary movement, it was all but dead (TIME, April...
...forces in Palestine. More like a rash corporal than an army commander, Abdul Kader charged up the rocky slopes at the head of his men. Behind him the sky paled, silhouetting his stocky figure. Haganah Bren guns riveted bullets in a straight line across his body. Abdul Kader fell dead. As news of the battle reached Jerusalem, Arab reinforcements streamed out to Kastel in armored cars, trucks and battered U.S.-made taxis. By midafternoon, 2,000 strong, they occupied the village...
...blue-uniformed Palestine police, surprised a small British army camp. They lined up four soldiers against a wall and shot them in the back. While some raiders broke into arms dumps, others sprayed the camp with machine-gun fire from an armored car. The camp commander was shot dead as he stepped from his office. Then the raiders made off with 62 rifles, 38 Sten guns, 18 Bren guns, 4 bazookas, and ammunition...
...afternoon the word spread: Gaitán was dead. The mob, which had quieted under the efficient handling of federal troops, went mad. Its members drove into the Cundinamarca building (provincial capitol), set fire to Gómez' Conservative newspaper El Siglo. They hurled stones through the windows of the President's palace. Across the city (pop. 400,000) smoke swirled from mob-struck buildings. Federal troops and police were powerless...