Word: distant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Distant kin of General (ret.) Lucius D. Clay...
...Mobile radar, mounted on two two-wheel trailers can instantly pinpoint hidden enemy mortars more than six miles distant (mortar fire accounted for more than half the Army's World War II and Korean war casualties...
More space will be available when many of the administrative offices in Weld Hall are moved to their new location in the proposed Health Center. But, von Stade said, that will happen only in the "distant future," in about five years...
...both sides of the broad Algerian boulevard stood columns of red-bereted French paratroopers, Tommy guns slung across their chests. Inside the square 15,000 Algerians-Moslem and European -gazed expectantly at the towering figure on the distant rostrum. They had come to hear General Charles de Gaulle abandon his Delphic evasion and spell out his plans for stanching the wounds of France and Algeria...
Complete withdrawal seemed to be in the distant future, however. Reports are that Chiang is taking advantage of the week-long respite to build up defenses on Quemoy and Matsu and stock up on ammunition, food and other supplies...