Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Owerri, rainwater seeped into a glucose bottle attached to the stomach of a chocolate-brown corporal identifiable as "Lucky Devil" from the nickname sewn into his bloody tunic. The truck, carrying a dozen wounded, had fallen into a culvert tunneled out by retreating Biafrans. Rain also slowed the stolid march of exhausted refugees from displaced minority tribes heading south from the fighting...
...AWOL Marine left Boston University's March Chapel late last night, only a few hours after he and another serviceman had sought sanctuary in the chapel...
...permitted other sappling nations in Southeast Asia to protect themselves against the communist menace. In addition, we cannot withdraw unilaterally because such action would open Southeast Asia to "more violence... more aggression... more instability." If the Vice-President still sees unrest in Southeast Asia simply as the march of aggressive communism, he is a long way from a realistic reappraisal of our foreign policy...
...board last week pointed out that some of the August increase in exports resulted from an "erratic" jump in diamond shipments. Nevertheless the figures, coupled with those of earlier months, do indicate a trend of sorts. Exports from June to August as a whole are 5% above those of March, April and May. Said London's Financial Times: "We may be moving towards first a balance and then a surplus in our foreign payments." With August's encouraging figures on hand, the Bank of England last week sought to speed up that movement by dropping the bank rate...
...March 5, 1957, the body of 15-year-old Schoolgirl Victoria Zielinski, her brains splattered about, was found along the bank of a sandpit in Mahwah, NJ. Within three months, Edgar Smith, 23, a knockabout machinist, was charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death for her murder. Eleven years later, challenging the death-house limbo record set by Caryl Chessman, Edgar Smith is still alive, fighting-and writing-for his life...