Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were waiting to join them. The rebels swept into Marti Park in the center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes circled overhead, the rebels charged, and after a vicious fight that littered the street with dead, the building fell. By noon rebels controlled the city-the first such feat they have been able to pull off since last November, when they held the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba for a few hours in a badly timed prelude to Castro's seaborne invasion from Mexico...
Estimates of the death toll ran from 75 to 200; the dead included two navy captains and the commandant of the maritime police. The army colonel in charge of mop-up operations was wounded. Three rebel navy officers, 13 enlisted men and three maritime police were captured and flown to Havana to face a rough round of questioning on how the revolt got started. Batista's troops began a house-to-house search for a reported 2,000 guns distributed to civilians from the arsenal...
...hill, the train came apart. The twin diesel locomotives rocketed on down the track, pulling the freight cars with them. Five cars plunged into a field; three others pounded one another to confused wreckage on the tracks. Another was derailed in a narrow cut. The toll: 178 dead and nearly 700 injured-biggest Western Hemisphere railroad death total since a Mexican train wreck killed approximately...
...cooperative, which includes talking to people. It's so easy to listen to the sound of your own voice-like now. But I know that under different circumstances you wouldn't listen to me. You'd be talking to me with a nice, healthy 'Drop dead' mixed in with the conversation here and there." Said Hyams: "Drop dead." Replied Brando: "Turn blue...
Jesuits are encouraged to develop their special talents or interests, ranging from archaeology to automation, from deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls to spotting the latest comet in the telescopes of the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, was a paleontologist of world renown who unearthed conclusive evidence that the so-called Peking man discovered in China in 1929 was human. Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University is a recognized expert on eclipses. Many