Word: hq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that invaded the basement of Culbertson Hall for six months in 1943. Under Weatherman Dr. Irving P. Krick (then Major Krick), enlisted men plotted worldwide weather maps, and Krick and his forecasters endeavored to predict weather as far ahead as 30 days . . . One day, badgered (via Teletype) by Washington HQ for an overdue forecast, Krick could not get them to understand that the delay was caused by missing or unavailable data. Finally he blew up and roared, "What the hell do they think I use, tea leaves...
...Korean general named Kang Moon Bang had an unexpected guest last week during a briefing session at ROK army HQ in Taegu: the top U.S. soldier in Korea, General Maxwell Taylor. As Kang Moon Bang talked on, a window at one side of the room slid open, and another unexpected guest popped into the room...
...witnesses who streamed in and out of Stanton's improvised HQ all identified Booth as the assassin. In a belated roundup of stablekeepers, army troops found a man who had kept Booth's horse for him till late afternoon...
...were unfavorable. In the new republic's first year of freedom, no fewer than 40% of Burma's elected M.P.s and their supporters came out in armed revolt against Prime Minister U Nu. Trade, commerce and government revenues slumped; the civil service fell away, demoralized. In police HQ, Pegu Province, a weary superintendent checked his dossier: "Of 21 stations in my district, I hold only six. The other 15 are held by five kinds of insurgents." In faraway London, Winston Churchill, then in opposition, rumbled...
...strong helped the weak whenever they could," said one young French paratrooper, "but every 500 meters someone fell to the ground." Said a German legionnaire: "Of 400 men in my squad when we left Dienbienphu . . . (twelve words deleted by French HQ censor)." Said a Spanish legionnaire: "There were . . . (three words censored) among 390 men in my squad." And a second Frenchman added: ". . . (two words censored) of 290 in my squad died...