Word: openings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executed; at Manzanillo a policeman and a soldier were cut down.* At week's end the total of the executed stood at 302, with more to come. On trial for their lives in Santiago were 20 army pilots and 20 bombardiers, charged with "genocide" for bombing and strafing "open towns" in rebel-held Oriente province. Many of the flyers claimed that they were transport pilots. But Castro himself has already condemned them as "the worst criminals of the Batista regime...
...democracy, both of thought and action. Coupled with the brains to take advantage of Ecuador's rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador built 1,600 miles of road. United Fruit opened a 7,000-acre plantation. Poor settlers from the highlands joined in and got 124 acres of government land free. Now Ecuador is the world...
...race for applications with recently completed geological maps showing formations of an oil-bearing type extending through the Arctic as far as Ellesmere Island, 490 miles from the North Pole. To aid future prospectors for oil as well as other minerals, the Department of Transport plans to open northern airfields (see map) to private flyers, maintain stores of supplies and equipment for them to buy as they need...
...court, in the fashion of the game, resembled a medieval courtyard; shedlike roofs slanted down along three sides. A huge net drooped limply across the floor. The low walls were pierced by openings that looked like windows in ancient outbuildings from which spectators peered out like court nobles in an old print. At the exclusive Racquet and Tennis Club on Manhattan's Park Avenue, devotees were watching Northrup R. Knox, 30, challenge 41-year-old Albert ("Jack") Johnson for the world open championship of the ancient game of court tennis...
...South Carolina, where the family has a winter home, took it up seriously after he graduated from Yale ('50) and moved to New York. For his teacher, he had the very best: tiny (5 ft. 6 in.) Pierre Etchebaster, now 65, a bouncy Basque who held the world open title from 1928 to 1954, is still probably the world's best...