Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hatred of a young army recruit for his martinet captain in the dusty Pacific town garrison of Portoviejo caused the rioting that put Ecuador under martial law and killed at least 37 people...
Unleashed, the chain reaction of violence had one more stage to go. Next day. Guayaquil's slum dwellers, bitter over their poverty amidst Ecuador's growing prosperity (TIME. Feb. 23). came out looting, burning, battling soldiers for another night before martial law and exhaustion put an end to the outbreak that resentful Draftee García unwittingly touched...
...Jeep for a platoon in an armored outfit in West Germany, was recently promoted from private first class to specialist fourth class. His $26.93 pay hike upped Millionaire Presley's total service salary (including overseas pay) to a cool $135.30 a month. But no sooner did Elvis put on his fancy new golden-eagle arm patch than an untoward infirmity, long predicted by his detractors, laid him low: his tonsils gave out. At week's end Soldier Presley was recovering from his throat infection, and doctors planned no surgery...
...until my California decree becomes final next year." Rumbled the judge who granted it: "I intend to look into the Mexican divorce and do whatever my legal duties call for." Said father-to-be (his fourth child) Rooney: "We're just elated that everybody in the world is put out by our happiness...
...prescription drug sometimes used by former addicts to curb their craving for stronger fixes. Rapped $55 for not having a narcotics user's identity card, he had only $1 and some small change to propitiate the law. The money to spring him after a night in jail was put up by Author Croswell Bowen. Shane O'Neill's collaborator on the current bestselling The Curse of the Misbegotten, a candid saga of the O'Neill family's tragic, repetitive journey into night...