Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after" the Israeli withdrawal. At midnight Israel's one-eyed Army Chief Moshe Dayan met Lieut. Colonel Carl Engholm, UNEF commander in Gaza, in the town square. "Everything is going well," said Engholm. Less than 48 hours later, fast-moving General Dayan handed over the wrecked Egyptian gun positions overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba narrows, and Israel's army was gone from Egypt after a 126-day stay...
...week at a Cuban school, which is presumably where they picked up their sympathy for Castro. About three weeks ago they slipped away from home, eluded Cuban army patrols and reached the mountain stronghold, 125 miles from Guantanamo. There, according to rebel reports, they are now uniformed, submachine gun-carrying members of the Castro band, anxious for a crack at the Batista forces and worried only that they might lose U.S. citizenship for taking up foreign arms...
Riggan described the attack to police, who advised him to "buy a gun and shoot first" next time. Both major Canadian wire services, Canadian Press and British United Press, picked up the story. It received heavy play in the Montreal newspapers, particularly the evening Herald, which has been waging an indignant anti-hoodlum editorial campaign. Riggan, onetime Birmingham Post-Herald reporter who has been a TIME correspondent in Canada since 1953, was troubled less by his injuries (which were minor) than by regret that he had not made it a better story. "What rankles most," he joked, "is reading...
...czardas-dancing gypsies a girl in rundown shoes and a beat-up hat marched to the footlights and belted out a number called Alles aus Naturverstand (meaning "Everything by Common Sense"). Americans in the audience recognized it as Doin' What Comes Natur'lly. Annie Get Your Gun had settled down in Vienna, and its arrival had precipitated another battle in the running musical war between partisans of old-fashioned Viennese operetta and fans of new-style American musical comedy...
Uber Alles. Near San Francisco, police bagged Drugstore Clerk Haig Terzian for possessing a marijuana cigarette, made a routine check of his property, found: one Mauser pistol, three cases of dynamite and caps, five hand grenades, a tear-gas gun, a smoke bomb, a 4-ft. brass cannon, a Nazi uniform, two swastika banners, 15 unregistered machine guns...