Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute pounding, a green flare lit the sky, and the barrage ceased. Communist infantrymen in force dashed 50 yds. closer to the beleaguered village, hit the dirt when a second red flare reopened the mortar barrage. With alternate barrages and infantry rushes, the attackers steadily closed in, got so near the entrenchments that the defenders could hear orders shouted in the Vietnamese, Thai and Kha dialects. Some of the enemy wore the olive drab uniforms of the North Viet Nam army; others the traditional ebony clothing that gives the name of Black Thai to the dissident border tribes...
...pattern of flight at Xieng Kho was repeated all along the river. A single-engine Beaver plane loaded with grenades, small arms and munitions, which was squared off to land at the weedy Muong Het airstrip, was met by machine-gun fire, barely got back to report that Muong Het had also fallen. An entire royal Laotian battalion of some 700 men, plus 400 home guards, had been cut to pieces...
Fortnight ago the Amsterdam underworld, outraged by declining dividends, took matters into its own hands, dispatched a flying squad of 50 musclemen, who set upon a gang of nozem out on a heckling foray and administered professional beatings all around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a telephone call from the city's leading racketeer. Willem ("Fat Steak'') Wagenaar. Said Fat Steak: "If you can't keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner...
Benny and Truman will show U.S. citizens where to go to study the history and philosophy of the U.S. presidency: the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence. "I'm doing it for Jack Benny and nobody else," said Truman, explaining that last year Benny had got out his violin to help "pull the Kansas City Philharmonic out of debt." As for the present show: "We want to keep it dignified," said Benny. "And we are," said Truman. "I'll kill myself if it isn't," said Benny. "All right," Truman punch-lined, "I've got...
...ports for lack of money to buy supplies. Lament Men Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen, both members of an oceanographic subspecies whose real interest is the bottom, told how the Vema's probing-on-a-shoestring may have solved the ancient mystery of how the earth got its oceans and its solid land...