Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river valleys to the southeast toward the town of Nghia Lo. At dawn French-manned B-26 bombers and Hellcat and Bearcat fighters were roaring off the airfields of Hanoi and Haiphong, a few minutes later were diving between the mist-shrouded peaks surrounding the Nghia Lo basin to plaster the Viet Minh troops with bombs and napalm. Over the town of Nghia Lo, C-47s and three-motored Junkers transports dropped French and Foreign Legion paratroopers, who quickly set up new defenses athwart the mountain passes. At week's end the severely mauled Viet Minh columns pulled back.The...
Last year,with two illegitimate children, aged two and four, Sylvie went to live in Paris' ramshackle Hotel du Theatre, a dingy four-story affair, its walls faced with chipped plaster, its windows hung with drying laundry. It was owned by Sylvie's old prison cellmate, Mme. Jeanne Perron, an amiable reformed fence known to most of her friends as Aunt Jeanne. Her little niece, Denise LeRoy, 12, soon moved in to join Sylvie's children, and in time the family circle was swelled by a handsome young Arab, Abdellah Saoulite, who had fallen prey to Sylvie...
...Patch of New Plaster. Under Sylvie's management, the hotel prospered. Seven months pregnant though she was, the new proprietress worked hard at her job. Her clothes were sometimes smeared with plaster, and she would explain: "I'm plugging up some of those rat holes in the cellar." An anonymous letter brought Police Inspectors Leloup and Lelong to the hotel. "Ah," said Sylvie, "I have good news for you. Madame is returning on Saturday." The policemen nodded: "We will be here...
...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...
...forces had violated the neutrality of Kaesong "malicious falsehoods," Ridgway poured towering scorn on the Communists in a historic verbal nose-twisting. More significant than words were Ridgway's deeds: at week's end, through the hot skies of Korea roared a force of B293 to plaster the once-untouchable North Korean port of Rashin "(see WAR IN ASIA). Throughout the period of his command, MacArthur urged the bombing of Rashin. On Aug. 12, 1950 he did bomb it, but further attacks on Rashin were forbidden by Washington. "It was a question of the risk involved," Secretary Marshall...