Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other, as the President pinned a Purple Heart on the left collar of his pajamas. "There's no problem at all. I'm ready to go back." The 1st Infantry Division's Pfc. Antonio Dell' Osso, 23, who had been torn apart by a land mine, was just as positive. "Sir," he said with tears in his eyes, "I'd do it again...
...fences of barbed wire, patrolled by armed Hungarian border police and Hungarian dogs, and secured by the Hungarians - since the early days of the cold war - by some 7,000,000 little brown boxes containing lethal charges of TNT. As the Iron Curtain wears thin, the mines are be coming as much of an embarrassment as a hindrance to trespassers. Stray cats or even a speedy thaw sets them off in the night, and in last year's torrential floods a great many mines sown on hillsides along the boundary-marking Pinka and Raab rivers worked loose and washed...
...sent village drummers and police loudspeaker cars through the vineyard-studded hills of southern Burgenland to alert the peasants to the danger. More to the point, a new eight-man Austro-Hungarian border commission called at the house of Claudia's parents to inspect fragments of the exploded mine, and the Hungarians officially admitted their guilt. The Foreign Ministry in Budapest promised to try to improve the situation, possibly (as the Austrians recommended) by damming the rivers temporarily and retrieving some of the lost mines from...
...Rockefeller's gubernatorial campaign, while pointedly reminding the public that the Governor had renounced all further presidential ambitions. The G.O.P., after all, could hardly nominate two New Yorkers. As for his own vice-presidential hopes, Javits allowed modestly that in 1968 the party would need "new faces." "Mine," he added, "would be a new face-a new and established face...
...privilege of buying standing room. Moments before the concert begins, Horowitz, tight as a high wire, reaches out to an usher. "Listen," he says, "you're young and healthy. Give me your hands to warm my fingers." "When I felt his hands," Horowitz recalls later, "I drew mine back quickly. Mine were cold, but his were really icy. He was more nervous than I. Everybody was nervous...