Word: patrol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spellbinding romantic, he can talk spontaneously for as much as five hours without strain. He hates desks-behind which he may have to sit to run Cuba. He sleeps irregularly or forgets to sleep, living on euphoria. He has always been late for everything, whether leading a combat patrol or speaking last week to the Havana Rotary Club, where a blue-ribbon audience waited 4¾ hours for his arrival. Wildly, he blasted U.S. arms aid to Batista, but he paid a friendly call at 1 a.m. on the ambassador from Britain, which sold tanks and planes to Batista...
...friends, raised $20,000 for guns and contraband army uniforms. At dawn on July 26. 1953, Fidel Castro led a column of 13 cars to the walls of Santiago's bristling Moncada barracks, a yellow stone pile where 1,000 Batista troops lay sleeping. A suspicious Jeep patrol came up. Castro, then 26, stepped out, raised his twelve-gauge shotgun and shot his first man. "That was the mistake," he recalls. "I had told them all to do what I did, and they all opened fire." The attack was stopped cold; Batista's cops rounded up and shot...
...letter to the Council, von Stade cited the "relative youth of the students involved" and the difficulty of controlling the numerous exits of Yard dormitories in explaining the Board's decision. To the Council's suggestion that each proctor patrol several proctoral units one weekend a month, he replied that this is not a proper function of proctors...
Hill used his skills as a skier and surgeon in climbing to an area near the top of the mountain after a ski patrol vehicle broke down and caring for the 12 injured children during the descent by toboggan. The youngsters had ignored warnings of dangerous ice in a roped-off area. Ten were hospitalized...
...patrol reported seizing 1,000 rounds of Egyptian ammunition, other military equipment and two camels hidden in a cave in the southern part of the country. One man was arrested. He was described as an armed Arab from Egyptian-governed Gaza...