Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lieutenants streamed into the Ranger school dugout on a mountain near Dahlonega in the rugged forest of North Georgia. For 72 hours they had dodged and fought blank-firing Aggressor troops (Russian-like insignia and uniforms) across 50 miles of tangled underbrush. By map and compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken. (New problem for the city-bred: how to kill and cook it.) They...
...beating of gongs, the clash of cymbals, the rataplan of exploding firecrackers. Demonstrators marched 110 abreast in a swirl of red banners and colored scarves. The usually gloomy and provincial streets blazed with electric lights strung on eaves and curving roofs; red stars and neon signs shone against the night sky; big, pumpkin-shaped lanterns dangled from the gates of the Imperial City...
...pressed for more power showed that they did not have it yet. At week's end Iraq celebrated the first May Day parade in its history, and the many thousands of Iraqis marching through Baghdad behind anti-imperialist banners was chilling proof of that mob might. But the night before, Kassem made a brief speech saying that he is opposed to political-party activity in Iraq just now-and not ready to take Communists formally into his Cabinet...
Reaching Usak, where he had scored his 1922 triumph, Inonu saw police scatter the welcoming crowd with tear gas, made his way with difficulty to the house of Republican Deputy Riza Salci. It was instantly surrounded by gendarmes, and during the night a fire started mysteriously and had to be put out by the Usak fire brigade. The next day, the local police chief announced that he had been suspended from duty because he refused to obey the provincial governor's order to shoot anyone who left Salci's house that night...
...miles away in a somber, echoing burial cave, the King-elect, naked and unarmed, stood trial by ordeal. Surrounded by the dusty mummies of eight of his ancestors, Willie Samuriwo kept his solitary vigil two long nights to prove-by escaping animal attack-his right to be King. Outside, whispering, loinclothed sentries sent back word to waiting villagers that the fresh spoor of a lion could be seen at the mouth of the cave, and a lioness had been seen prowling in the vicinity during the night, but neither had molested Willie...