Word: nails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forces sent him to India, where he flew a flock of missions out of a funny little strip at Ondal. He could give a Zero half a turn and still nail it in his sights. And one day he buzzed the airfield at Rangoon just to drop some comic books...
Veteran blocking back Gil O'Nail and captain tackle John Nichols will speak to the throng at the Blockhouse, with the cheerleaders introducing a new locomotive cheer and the old traditional once...
...campus began to take shape. But Franklin Johnson's troubles were not over. Some of his biggest pledges never materialized (one man died the day after promising a new building), and World War II put a full stop to construction. When Johnson retired in 1942, not a nail was being hammered on silent Mayflower Hill...
...leader, North Korean Colonel Lee Hak Koo: "This is a legal order for you to prepare the prisoners of war in Compound 76 to move out into the newly constructed compounds . . ." Lee ignored the order. When the paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regiment moved in, the prisoners fought tooth & nail. In the first hours of battle 32 Communists were killed and at least 85 wounded; one of the paratroopers was killed and 13 wounded. But eventually a heavy tear-gas barrage brought the Communists out of their trenches, choking and weeping, with their hands in the air. Even before...
...carefully planned wave of rioting that swept Paris, in the threat of a new Battle for Berlin, in the bloody clash of police and students armed with nail-studded clubs, spears, rocks and sulphuric-acid bombs that marked Memorial Day in Tokyo, there was no sly attempt to seduce the susceptible. Moscow had trusted its dove's sweet song to lull the free West into continued indecision. The song had bamboozled many, but it had not deterred the Western governments...