Word: hands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ridenhour described it, one of his C Company friends was stunned by the fate of a small wounded boy who had been standing by the hamlet trail. "The boy was clutching his wounded arm with his other hand, while blood trickled between his fingers," Ridenhour wrote. "He just stood there with big eyes staring around like he didn't understand. Then the captain's RTO [radio operator] put a burst of 16 [M16 rifle] fire into...
Late last summer, mobsters from Cleveland and Los Angeles set in motion an ingenious scheme to slip the hand of organized crime back into the casino tills. The plan was simple: organize the city's 7,000 plus gambling dealers into a mob-run union. Using the threat of a strike that could cripple the gambling hotels, the gangsters could persuade the owners to sign lucrative contracts for food, liquor and vending machines from firms owned by Cosa Nostra An equally distasteful prospect for casino owners would be that the dealers could become free agents, responsible only...
...thumb of missile strategists, one missile power takes advantage of another by attacking its silos instead of its population centers: this way, the other nation's retalitory power is immediately demolished. The ability to do this is termed first-strike capability. A non-aggressor nation, on the other hand, merely wants to forestall attack. This it does by aiming its missles at potential agressor's cities as a retalitory threat: then it protects these retalitory missiles with ABMS. This is described as a second-strike capability...
...would-be shoppers form in the dingy light of false dawn, long before the rising sun has set the golden stupa of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda aglow. For hours, as crows caw mournfully above the dirty streets, they stand in line at "people's stores," ration cards in hand, waiting for a chance to buy rice, bread, soap or a bit of cloth to make a longyi, the Burmese sarong. But when the doors open, the shelves, as often as not, are bare...
...making mischief for the Rangoon government. Ne Win himself earlier this month admitted that his army had lost 133 men during the first eight months of this year in skirmishes provoked, he said, by "Burmese Communists." In the Pegu Yoma mountains north of Rangoon, on the other hand, the Burmese army has scored heavy gains against the "White Flag" Communists and virtually controls the region for the first time in 20 years...