Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...village of Xieng Kho, a huddle of thatch-roofed huts standing on spindly stilts deep in the Samneua jungle, had seemingly had little to fear. Xieng Kho's garrison, dug in on a hillside above the village, consisted of 70 regulars of the royal Laotian army, 100 home guards and 25 counter-guerrillas who are called maquis by French-educated Laotians. For 25 miles along the western bank of the Nam Ma river, there were similar garrisons under the control of battalion headquarters at Muong Het. eight miles from the Vietnamese frontier. And they were backed...
...Beaver plane loaded with grenades, small arms and munitions, which was squared off to land at the weedy Muong Het airstrip, was met by machine-gun fire, barely got back to report that Muong Het had also fallen. An entire royal Laotian battalion of some 700 men, plus 400 home guards, had been cut to pieces...
...nightmare war. What news of the front he could get came from runners, a handful of Red prisoners and an endless stream of refugees :women with babies, men burdened with mattresses and sewing machines, a ten-year-old boy toting a submachine gun that his father, an ex-home guard, had told him to return to the government. To reach the area of a reported fight only 20 miles away in the jungle took Amkha's troops nearly three days' march. The wounded died where they fell, or were borne by litter, dugout canoe or oxcart only...
...around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a telephone call from the city's leading racketeer. Willem ("Fat Steak'') Wagenaar. Said Fat Steak: "If you can't keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner flatly rejected Fat Steak's offer. But last week idle Amsterdamers out for a spot of nozem watching found remarkably little to look at. Those nozem who did appear in Dam Square spent their evenings in subdued conversation...
...same that he used effectively in 1956 as ambassador to Colombia to show his coolness toward then-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla: letting the snubs fall on a mere charge d'affaires. Just as Castro learned Bonsai's plans, a Washington News editorial reprinted in Havana drove home the message: "There is a point where patient tolerance becomes obsequious humility...