Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the tanker's arrival the U.S. made good on its pledge to Israel, at the time Israel pulled its troops out of the Egyptian gun positions dominating the gulf narrows, to send in a ship flying the U.S. flag to help establish the right of "innocent passage" through gulf waters...
Then Sukarno stepped boldly into the breach he himself had opened. As Djakarta's sunset gun heralded an end to the day's fasting for the Moslem Ramadan, Sukarno summoned 69 leading Indonesian politicians and 60 of his top-ranking military leaders through a driving tropical downpour to the vaulted, marble-floored State Palace. In one bank of chairs on one side of the hall sat the civilian politicians of all persuasions. Facing them across a space of 20 feet sat the military men-who are, to a man, disturbed by the politicians' bickering. With a proper...
Enemy mines haphazard the roads, enemy mortars control the passes, enemy snipers infest the fields. In 15 miles the lieutenant loses two men, and when he gets to Hill 465. he finds-enemy machine-gun nests. The picture ends with a battle for a hill that probably means nothing to either side...
Bales pioneered recearch in the behavior of small groups, throwing light on the functioning of committees, gun crews and work teams. Solomon has made important studies of the learning processes in both animals...
...young guitar-playing itinerant who arrives there. He becomes involved with its unhappy women, and as a result with its unreasoning men, to be chewed to death at last by its chain-gang bloodhounds. More intensively-amid daffy old ladies, a nymphomaniac outcast, knife-flashing bullies and gun-toting racists-it tells of the young man's affair with a woman whose Italian father was burned to death by a mob, and whose husband helped burn him. Symbols of lostness and loneliness, they become victims of corruption and brutality...