Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon a Chinese gunboat moved into the harbor and contemptuously lay to a few yards off Macao's downtown wharves. Next day two armed motor junks began zigzagging among the fishing fleet. Later Communist police launches joined in. They fired no guns but that night far fewer junks remained...
...more than 100 picketing loggers of the striking International Woodworkers of America, set on intercepting non-I.W.A. loggers. When the I.W.A. halted a sedan to threaten the four passengers in it, the Mounties radioed Grand Falls for help. More Mounties and provincial constables rushed to the scene. Police night sticks and loggers' crude clubs swung through the chilly air. Provincial Constable William J. Moss, 24, caught a blow on the head from a birch club, died in a hospital 30 hours later of a fractured skull and brain injuries...
...vacation in Florida, General of the Army Omar Bradley, 66, now board chairman of the Bulova Watch Co., put on a sourdough getup and a super-Groucho mustache for a frolicsome "Yukon Night" at the exclusive Surf Club north of Miami Beach. Other Bradley diversions: sharpening up his mortar-accurate (high 70s) golf game, playing the ponies (he has one named after him) at Gulf stream track, where he showed a keen eye for long shots, made $26.20 on a $2 bet. Said an admiring friend: "He spends more time studying the form charts than anyone I ever knew...
...Force General Nathan Twining, his rakish fedora and hail-fellow grin somewhat more suggestive of a precinct boss on election night than a hard-working Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed up in mufti, as he often does, for a brass-tacks Monday conference with the President on military matters...
...which was an eager signer of the Ivy League de-emphasis pact of 1954, has since played the game so honorably that its teams have won 24 games, lost 20. But to his astonishment, Thompson soon learned that football is no laughing matter-even at Brown. His phone rang night and day with anonymous threatening calls from sullen students. Curious to see how Brown would react to more balloon pricking, Thompson stuck tongue farther in cheek, called for the abolition of the Navy and the FBI. His phone jangled louder than ever...