Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...included 35 storage tanks on the surface and three underground, 16 warehouses, rows of oil barrels in an open storage area. The Hanoi storage farm, across the Red River from the city, contained 32 revetment-protected tanks, 13 supporting buildings, and railroad spurs that comprised the country's main oil-transshipment center...
...small village of Nowy Dvor, some 20 miles from Warsaw, shirt-sleeved farmers chatted in the main square before the church, glancing toward the grey militia cars parked near by. In the dusty churchyard, women knelt to pray while children in white Communion dresses skipped about. Inside the small, battered church, Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski told an overflowing congregation that the replica of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, scheduled to arrive that day in Nowy Dvor as part of a summer-long processional to celebrate the millennium of Poland's conversion to Christianity would not come. "The authorities intercepted...
...compound called "V.C. Tower." In it were 15 South Vietnamese army prisoners. Soon Dodson was joined by another Danang marine: Corporal Walter Eckes, 20, of New York City. Eckes had been captured four days after Dodson by three Viet Cong dressed in government uniforms as he waited beside a main highway. The two marines were the only English-speaking residents in the lightly guarded camp, save for a planted Vietnamese Communist pretending to be a captured Special Forces soldier...
...Main target of Jomo's wrath was not Odinga but rather Bildad Kaggia, the lone Kikuyu in the KPU's Luo-dominated upper ranks. Kaggia, roared Kenyatta, was a captive of the Communists, a liar, a cheat and a lover of "black necks"-a derogatory Kikuyu reference to the darker-skinned Luo. Moreover, suggested Jomo in the ultimate Kikuyu insult, he suspected that Kaggia was not even circumcised. Kaggia was crushed by an 18,000-vote KANU plurality...
...filled with one of the world's richest private collections of Renaissance art: 15th century French tapestries, hand-carved ceilings, and a commode from the palace of Frederick the Great. Evening concerts are held in a 1,500-seat outdoor theater, a short walk away from the main house through a medieval gate from the palace of the Cappellettis (Shakespeare's Capulets) in Verona. The stage of the Venetian theater is built around three dozen 9th century Greek and Roman columns that were smuggled out of Italy several years ago and subsequently bought by the owners of Caramoor...