Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policemen pointed out several wood and dirt bunkers built into the hillside 500 ft. above them. Suddenly, the thin, cold mountain air crackled with the discharge of rifles, hand grenades and 2-in. mortars. Scrambling from their rearing ponies, the Indians unslung their .303 rifles and returned the fire. But they were hopelessly trapped: the barren terrain lacked trees or boulders to give them cover, and they were being raked by crossfire. Only five Indians escaped. Nine were killed and ten wounded by the Red Chinese troops who had staged the ambush...
...demand profuse gratitude for favors given. Wrote an Indian editor: "Americans have conducted themselves with an unusual dignity over India's breach with China. They have successfully resisted the temptation of crowing-at least in public-over the fulfillment of their earlier warnings that we were playing with fire in wooing the Chinese. What Americans had not been able to achieve by the expenditure of millions of dollars -seen and unseen-has been accomplished for them at one stroke by Chinese folly...
Setting forth phases to suggest the "awkward discontinuity" in human drives, Sittler said that within Possession--"the fire of nature and the creator of culture"--there operates a dialectic called Immolation. As C. S. Lewis writes, "To attend to your own love or fear is to cease attending to the loved or dreaded object...
...that the play was a quarter mile away at the Globe Theatre, where an audience had begun mumbling and grumbling while the curtain was being held for the Swedes' arrival. Dashing for a cab. the royal couple were quickly embroiled in a horrendous Piccadilly Circus traffic snarl, including fire engines, but they got to the Globe only 15 minutes late. The King smiled fleetingly when the Queen said that the Haymarket had been her error. The Haymarket, which had so briefly and unknowingly enjoyed the pleasure of His Majesty's company, was playing Samuel Taylor...
...this derelict aboard the derelict, and what was he doing there? Why had the crew deserted the ship when she was obviously in no danger of sinking? Why had one man been left aboard, left for dead in the No. 4 hold? Who had set fire to the radio shack, and blown a hole in the hull, just above the water line, with dynamite? Who had hidden whose corpse in the coal bunker? Why had the Mary Deare made a mysterious unscheduled stopover at Rangoon? Why did the last man aboard insist on steering her straight for the Channel rocks...