Word: flare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours, Luciole, a battered C-47 of countless missions, heaved reluctantly down the runway and climbed through the moonlit mist. The crew started preparing flares, and their job was typical of the makeshift means the French must so often use in Indo-China. The flares were designed for bomb-bay release, but tonight they would have to be shoved by hand from the C-47's door. The delicate business of arming them must be done after takeoff. A sergeant flung one flare tail cap on the floor and swore. "It's defective," he grumbled. "This happens...
...from Hanoi, Colonel D. blacked out the plane. A few minutes later, Sergeant K., hunched over a radio set, reported: "We have contact with Dienbienphu." Deep down below us, a brilliant white light floated in the air for a few seconds, then died out-perhaps a Communist mortar flare. Luciole started weaving on a gentle, irregular pattern...
...colonel scribbled notes on the traffic below. The crew chief began a letter to his wife: "Ma chère petite." Above us, Privateer bombers also kept vigil, waiting like Luciole's flares for a Communist attack. The French keep bombers and at least one flare plane in relays over Dienbienphu every night...
...clubbed shoulders, thumped backs. Amazed, then aroused, the students fought back with bricks, branches torn from trees, even shoes snatched off their own feet. Bystanders joined in, seizing the chance to strike at the hated Policia Armada. For two hours the fight raged, subsiding on one street corner to flare up on another. Some 80 demonstrators and 20 police were wounded...
...could now remember well his walk two years ago down the cold tunnel into the Bowl as the Band swung into "Our Director"--the saucer-shaped bowl that gave Vag the uncomfortable sensation that he was watching the game from West Rock--the Blue flare some Yale freshman set off that smothered the Eli faus instead of the Crimson--the din when Hardy crashed into Molloy and Harvard went ahead 21-14--the sickening final minutes when Yale tied the ball game--the weird feeling Vag had driving to New York, not knowing whether to sing or Sulk...