Word: nights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cars, or shuffled through the small-town streets, but did no damage. Then, all of a sudden, they were roused again. A hundred shouting whites with rifles and pistols roared into tiny Mascotte in trucks, forced Guardsmen and police to withdraw and took over the community for the night...
...Lattre was also one of the army's hardest taskmasters. A colonel who served on his staff tells a story: "One night the general returned from a staff meeting to divisional headquarters with a strategic problem. He called me in with two other officers about dinnertime, asked our views on the problem, then told us to go back and put our ideas on paper. That took us till 3 in the morning. He read all the papers, said, 'Excellent, excellent,' then talked for 30 minutes tearing them to bits. Then he divided the problem into three parts...
Would the game draw revenue to redress the Casino's deficit? On the next night, Albert Jauffret, who had studied "les craps, version originate" in the U.S. this spring, was wary: "It's still a little early for the ice to melt...
...Mahanaim, in Galilee, near the place where Jacob once wrestled all night with an angel, Syrian and Israeli representatives met last week, after 3½ months of haggling, to conclude an armistice on the last active front of the Palestine...
Throughout the night the poorly organized rebels, supported by tanks and field guns, mounted attack after attack on the palace, the police station and the army airport. The town's best residential sections, Tivoli and Santa Clara, were squeezed in a triangle formed by the military academy on the north, the airbase on the south and Fort Guardia de Honor on the east. Tanks clattered through as street fighters kept up a running battle from doorway to doorway, the military bases exchanged artillery fire and government planes zoomed down to bomb tanks and strafe street fighters. The quaking government...