Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like them to attack in large numbers because then we can mow them down," said Major General William Hinde, director of military operations in Kenya. With Lyttelton's approval, he ordered 10,000 Kikuyu Home Guardsmen, recruited to defend their homes, to be armed with shotguns. Yet as Lyttelton plainly saw, stamping out the Mau Mau would require more than shotguns. The problem, as in Malaya, is to assure the majority of natives of the government's concern for their welfare, and to protect them against the Mau Mau. Snapped General Sir Cameron Nicholson: "We need a great...
...freezing cold of Monday morning, March 9, the pageant of death was played out to its end. A silent 35,000 massed in the flower-banked vastness of Red Square. Thousands held black-bordered portraits of the dead man. A 750-piece band stood motionless. Tall, grey-coated guardsmen paced silently before the great red and black stone mausoleum Stalin had built for Lenin, and now is to share with him until the government builds a promised new Pantheon for Stalin, Lenin and all the lesser gods of Communism...
...ever since 1911 and had more than 50% of the business. But Auto-Lite had lost Henry ford, its biggest single customer, because Henry decided to make his own electric parts. Auto-Lite was also in bad repute because of a bitter strike in which trigger-happy Ohio national guardsmen shot and killed two strikers and wounded five others. Martin was able to talk Auto-Lite's founder, the late Clem Mininger, into a 2½-for-one swap of Moto Meter's stock for Auto-Lite's, and soon after Martin became president. In 18 years...
...refused, so on the night of Jan. 23, two well-armed Israeli platoons (50 men)' crossed 1,200 yards into Jordan. They illuminated the quiet village of Falama with Very lights, then pounded it with Browning machine-gun fire and hand grenades for 90 minutes before Jordanian national guardsmen forced them to withdraw, leaving one uniformed Israeli dead. Six nights later, Israeli units hit Falama again. They blew open its protective barbed wire and clobbered it with mortars for almost three hours in one of the biggest attacks since the war's end. Ten Arabs were wounded...
Thomas R. Davis, on his way to the School of Public Health by sailboat from New Zealand, yesterday was reported safe by Coast Guardsmen after his 48 foot ketch "Miru" bucked a blistering tropical storm...