Word: death
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they had given him. "Our troops are advancing," he said, "but we cannot do it all. Send the Dominican legion!" One night, while Castro sat in the dark under a nearby mango tree to watch, a Dominican C46 put down at a Las Villas strip. As his men yelled "Death to Castro!" Morgan conferred at length with a man in priest's garb and five civilians. Morgan's men unloaded 13 bazookas and 40 cases of ammunition from the plane...
...bragged: "If we could have kept our plans secret for 15 days, we would have captured Trujillo and his whole army." Ominously, placards saying "To the firing squad!" appeared on buses and walls. Waldo Medina, a prosecuting attorney for the Supreme Court, called for execution of the plotters (the death sentence is legal for "counterrevolutionary activity") and accused the U.S. of egging them on. Bitterness-between Castro and Trujillo, between Castro and his victims at home-grew rapidly...
...established an efficient treasury, schools, an observatory, and provided stability so that the country could grow. Yet Garcia ruled that non-Catholics might not be citizens, subordinated the state to the church, in 1873 solemnly dedicated Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A leather worker hacked him to death in 1875. For the next 20 years Ecuador floundered through civil war, brigandage and six more dictators...
...besides sing and act? A. Counsel the lovelorn. Q. Why do you specialize so much in love? A. Because it is the only important thing. Q. Do you plan to write your memoirs? A. No, I am not an exhibitionist. Q. What do you fear most? A. Death...
...Astronautics last week reported on another use for atomic wastes: inserted in modified grenades, leftovers from nuclear reactors could be lobbed across enemy lines. The small releasing blast would do almost no damage to roads and real estate. But the radioactivity would, within a reasonably short time, bring death to every person within a wide area...