Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambodia, where the U.S. does not bomb, except for tactical strikes against gun positions that fire into South Viet Nam, the patrols carry out scouting and occasional sabotage against Communist bases. There is no military coordination as such between the allies and the 35,000-man Cambodian army. But along parts of the border, the two sides have reached "local accommodations"-including at least one instance of Cambodian artillery support for a beleaguered South Vietnamese outpost. Some intelligence information has also been exchanged. Indeed, Cambodian troops have been involved in small skirmishes with Communist forces. For all that, Sihanouk...
...poets, cruising the dormant volcanic cones of Iceland on ponies, never lost their awareness of the active political volcanoes of Europe, which had first erupted in Spain. The last line in the book, "Still I drink your health before/The gun-butt raps upon the door," crystallizes in a phrase the tone of the period. Although no gun-butt ever knocked on the doors of Auden or MacNeice, the two poets were better prophets than most politicians. They sang of Armageddon...
...race highlights was at the start in Hopkinton. The Bermans, a husband and wife team, were lined up, and just as the gun sounded a promiscuous runner pinched Mrs. Berman in the right buttock. Her husband responded, in the name of valor, with a right hook to the man's jaw but missed and decided to start running...
...father died many years ago now--of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust...
People were sitting up in trees, we were all laughing, and then we heard what seemed to be a gun. A few seconds later, those in front of us began to move. It had started. The start has been compared to a rifle shot. The top runners, positioned in the first two rows, start up imme- diately, the bullet, leaving the rest of us, the rifle, behind...