Word: mauser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Costa Rica-based rebel C46 landed 40 men, armed with 7-mm. Mauser rifles and automatic weapons, in a pasture 90 miles east of Managua. There they met 60 allies leading pack mules and horses and headed into trackless jungle to the east. The second C46 landed heavily in a soggy field 65 miles northeast of Managua, was burned by the 35 troops it carried when a damaged landing gear prevented takeoff. When a twelve-man foot patrol of Tachito's national guard arrived to examine the plane's remains, the rebels ambushed the soldiers...
...Briggs Hall and Brooklyn, N.Y., majoring in English, Shelia A. Greibach '60, of Briggs Hall and New Rochelle, N.Y., Linguistics and Applied Mathematics, Alice J. Hendrickson '60, of Whitman Hall and Seattle, Wash., Social Relations, Alice M. Maffry '60, of Gillan House and New York City, Classics, Majory Mauser '60, of Eliot Hall and New York City, History and Literature, and Jeanne Rosen '60, of Saville House and Cincinnati, Ohio, English...
...CHOIR INVISIBLE (311 pp.)-Marianne Mauser - McDowell, Obolensky...
...prowler climbed through the window into a fourth floor room in Eliot Hall last night and attempted to attack the occupant, Margery Mauser '60. Miss Mauser's screams frightened the man, who ran down the fire escape. Police were summoned immediately...
...sentry, a stocky half-Indian named Romeo Vásquez Sánchez, snapped his heels together at attention, slapped his rifle up to present arms. Then Soldier Vásquez Sánchez stepped back, flipped off one set of hall lights, and raised his 7-mm. Mauser to his shoulder. As the President half-turned, Vásquez Sánchez shot him through the heart. Doughty Castillo Armas, 42, who overthrew the only Communist-dominated government that the Western Hemisphere ever had, died at once...