Word: dismounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fair circuit later this summer. Performed by four new Harvester tractors, the dance is designed to show just how fast the machines can hitch up to various farm implements, with the help of a new hydraulic coupling device. With Harvester's new coupler, farmers do not have to dismount from their tractors to hitch or unhitch plows, harrows, weeders and other Harvester implements; working from the tractor seat, they can do the job in seven seconds...
...Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming-pan! Charge your musket! Draw forth your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Return your scouring stick! Recover...
Luncheon was ending when a German military convoy drove into Oradour. A few curious Frenchmen left the tables to watch the helmeted soldiers dismount. Two yellow and green camouflaged tanks took up a position in front of the 15th century church of Oradour. Then old Jean Depierrefiche, the town blacksmith who was also the town crier, went through the streets calling on all inhabitants to assemble at the market place with their identification papers. The German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came...
Price of Peace. Good form among battling Guajiros requires that a warrior ride up to the enemy, dismount and shoot his own horse first, to show self-confidence. In spite of such horsing around, the Blackbirds and the Weasels managed, in two years, to kill 41 of both tribes and rustle countless livestock. A fortnight ago, fed up with fighting, they decided to try again to work out a peace...
...bridge. He jumped in a jeep, swung himself behind a 30-caliber machine gun and drove up to stop them. Meanwhile, the reconnaissance platoon went off for one last swing through the town to make sure all the U.N. troops were out. When the colonel finally was forced to dismount and turn them back at carbine point, the Koreans seemed hurt and puzzled...