Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephone. He took the call on an old-fashioned wall phone, got the word from Dulles that he was heading off for Walter Reed Hospital for his hernia operation. "Don't rush back," said Dulles. "If you do, they'll think I'm worse than I am-and if I am that bad, you'll need the rest to handle the work...
Late the second night Warden Powell heard over his ever-working prison grapevine that Myles had decided to burn the hostages. He acted quickly, led a 50-guardsmen bazooka, machine-gun and rifle attack. The first bazooka "V-O-O-R-O-O-M" so shook the cons that they got only one naphtha jug poured, never got it lit before machine guns scared them away. Wept one guard: "It was like getting your life back again...
...Edna Kallman told the police that Attilio hired a maid to watch her, and to knock on her bedroom door if she spent more than ten minutes with a client. Once, when she complained of having to work daily, in sickness and in health, he shouted: "I'm tired of this! I could get a 17-year-old who would work harder than you, and I could sleep with her as well...
...duty guarding Castro right from the time his turbo-prop Britannia touched down at Washington airport two hours late. Castro wheeled dauntlessly through his guards to a wire fence and flung out his arms to the hundreds of cheering Cubans. "He must be crazy," muttered a guard. "I'm getting more cops than Mikoyan," said Castro...
...pushing on the shot a longer period of time. He also has a tendency to let the shot drop a little too low just before the throw." But he speaks of Long's ultimate capabilities with awe: "If I say 70 feet, people will think I'm crazy. But if I don't say it, this boy will probably...