Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herter served as a fledgling diplomat in Berlin and then in German-occupied Brussels, spent a night in jail in 1917 when he was arrested as a suspected spy shortly after the U.S. got into...
Late the second night Warden Powell heard over his ever-working prison grapevine that Myles had decided to burn the hostages. He acted quickly, led a 50-guardsmen bazooka, machine-gun and rifle attack. The first bazooka "V-O-O-R-O-O-M" so shook the cons that they got only one naphtha jug poured, never got it lit before machine guns scared them away. Wept one guard: "It was like getting your life back again...
...teen-age girls peeped out from a darkened front parlor late one night last week in the coal-grimed Rhondda Valley of South Wales. They held their breath as a policeman paused outside, rejoiced when he tramped on past the bleak rows of miners' houses. From a lighted window opposite, a man nodded curtly to signal that BBC television was closing the day's transmission with God Save the Queen...
...heavily curtained back kitchen, cried: "Now!" A grinning, red-haired schoolmaster called Glyn ducked between lines of drying laundry, flicked a wall switch, punched the playback button on a battered tape recorder, and darted back, screwdriver in hand, to his homemade 80-watt transmitter. And out into the night, on BBC-TV's Channel 5, went the Freedom Station's call signal: the sound of a pencil tapped three times on a saucepan...
...Harlech, the war song recalling the last great uprising of the Welsh against the English in the middle of the 15th century. After 18 minutes of "Freedom" news, interviews, oratory and song, Men of Harlech roared out again, and the announcer said in Cymric,* "Nos da [good night...