Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrillas struck at breakfast time, catching the American infantrymen unarmed and off guard. One U.S. sergeant was decapitated at the mess table: his head tumbled neatly into his plate of hash. Others fought back and were later found dead with bloody forks clenched in their fists. Of the 74 officers and men of C Company, 9th U.S. Infantry, only 26 survived. As one of them raged with tears in his eyes: "Damn the infernal Googoos...
...eggs are under guard in the headquarters of General Kong Le, commander of Souvanna Phouma's neutralist army. Kong Le got them from a peasant, who dug them up near the neutralist base two months ago. True enough, they did not really look like a dragon's eggs. They were hard-shelled and white, instead of being soft-shelled and mottled, as dragons' eggs in Laos usually are. But there was no mistaking them for the real thing: no sooner had the peasant taken them home than he fell into a delirium and was visited...
...quick and clean. Despairing of achieving a successful merger, Slay went into a Wayne County circuit courtroom at 6:45 one evening last week. The judge declared Public insolvent, put it in receivership with the Government's Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC quickly moved to safe guard Public's depositors by selling Public to Commonwealth, and provided the new owner with a $10 million guarantee against any further bad debts owed to Public. Six hours later, at 12:45 a.m., McGuire was informed of the deal by telephone. At 2 a.m., Commonwealth officers began telephoning their own staffers...
Many of the vignettes claw at the skin without reaching the heart. A few do both. There was the camp guard who became irritated at the sight of a little boy holding an apple. He swung the child against a cement wall and bashed out his brains. Then he contentedly munched the apple. The theater comes to be haunted with the screams of the tortured. The stench of death so invades the evening that the playgoer is often closer to choking than to crying...
Last Saturday on the Charles, they came in second behind Princeton but ahead of Yale in the race of the Knapp Trophy. The next day they registered another second, this time to the host Coast Guard Academy in a five-team field...