Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like Dak Son. But in this case, Communist terrorism had clearly overshot its mark. Chanting and weeping as they buried their dead, the Montagnard survivors resolved to stay in Dak Son and rebuild the hamlet. More than 100 men immediately volunteered for irregular-force training and a chance to defend Dak Son should the men with "the guns that shoot fire" ever show up again...
...nearly a week early for an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo called to decide on an Arab summit. That left the government in charge of Field Marshal Hassan al-Amri, the army commander. Al-Amri declared a 6 p.m. curfew, ordered civilians to form militia units "to defend the republic." In Liberation Square, a howling mob watched a firing squad execute six suspected Royalist infiltrators, then dragged their bodies to the gates of the city and strung them up on poles...
...exlaims: "I do not know which remedy to use, which sheep should I run to help? 1 cannot defend them all, so it would be best to desist from...
...would disagree with Moore that the nation's fiscal problems need attention. Yet the point at which the U.S. can no longer defend the price of gold -and thus the dollar-hardly seems near. Although the U.S.'s gold supply has fallen far from its $24.6 billion peak of 1949, the nation's gold pool partners and its creditors throughout the world are not at all anxious to bring down the present monetary system by drawing out the remaining U.S. supply. And Congress, as Moore urges, may soon expand the available supply by ending the requirement that...
...police. Though no Communist himself, the Speaker of the West Bengal house chose to suspend the legislature rather than allow the new Congress-supported government to take office. In the volatile Punjab, religious leaders greeted the Congress move as an attack on the Sikhs and warned their followers to defend themselves. The Congress Party had used its muscle to recapture states that it could not win at the ballot box, but it seemed only to have supplanted one kind of chaos with another...