Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interception and confiscation of any further arms shipments from Communist sources to Guatemala;-2) a five-nation watchdog commission to enforce the arms quarantine and to keep an eye on Guatemalan infiltration among its neighbors; and 3) no action for the present on economic sanctions that might bring hardship to Guatemala's people...
...perilous job of flying supplies into Dienbienphu. Earthquake went among the first. The C-119s they flew were on loan from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. markings barely covered over with one coat of grey paint. The pay was good (about $3,000 a month, including hardship pay and overtime), but if pressed, Earthquake admitted to another reason. "Way I figure it, we either got to fight the bastards at home or fight them over here." When his CAT buddies howled with derisive laughter at the idea that their interests might be anything "other than mercenary or adventuresome, Earthquake...
...students: clarify the implications of exchange status to "visitors"; make it easier for regular foreign students to readjust under the quota system. Indeed, according to Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, the "whole quota system is unreasonable." Such requirements as the double quota need of section 245 "impose needless hardship on students," he feels...
...another, more sure fire plan, entailing only the cost of a few cheap umbrellas. Lampoon men could hold meetings not in the Great Hall, but above it, on the distinctive Flemish tiles. There they could laugh, and at the same time learn that a writer's lot is hardship and wet feet...
...Nearchus (325 B.C.), explorer, built ships and sailed from the mouth of the Indus across the Arabian Sea and up to the head of the Persian Gulf. He and his crew reported to their commander in chief Alexander the Great in Iran, after a two-year voyage of tremendous hardship and valor. Could be ... a case of long-distance heredity...