Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French did not want to lose a capital, however unimportant. They flew in reinforcements, swept the outskirt junglebrush to clear their field of fire, and borrowed the royal elephants to haul wood for their entrenchments. The French believed they could hold Luang Prabang, but the Communists had already loped 100 miles toward the city from their start line-a headline that went round the world. Men died in these skirmishes, but the fact remains that Indo-China is not primarily a real-estate war. So far, Navarre has denied the Communists what they most want-the rice-rich delta around...
...Manhattan before the Council on Foreign Relations, reacted to Communist moves and met local aggressions on a local basis. The new policy is based on an entirely different concept. It places "more reliance on community deterrent power and less dependence upon local defensive power"; it plans for the "long haul," and not merely for the sudden emergency...
Possible commercial use: as a medium range (500 miles) transport between big airliners and short-haul helicopters...
While the principal contenders minced their tongues-Winthrop Rockefeller in his Arkansas mountaintop estate, and Barbara ("Bobo") Rockefeller in her Park Avenue apartment-word seeped out that a monster cash settlement was in the works as the first step to their divorce. The reported haul for Bobo and five-year-old Winthrop Paul: $5,500,000, mainly in trust funds and securities, plus $70,000-a-year alimony...
...result is inconvenience for both the senior thesis writer and anyone else wishing to use the material with which he is working. Because seniors have no place in the stacks where they can store their thesis books while using them, many are forced to haul loads of twenty or thirty volumes back to their rooms. Equally important, when the books are out of the library, they are unavailable for other people who may need them, sometimes for just a few minutes' work...