Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cries the hawksman as he sends his bird aloft. Some such command rang through the woodlands of Assyria 3,000 years ago, and carried down the Middle Ages. Every king had his eagles, every earl his peregrines, and even a knave might fly a kestrel. They brought pigeon and duck to the table, and sport to the afternoon...
Cause for Alarm. In Montreal, a 23-year-old pyromaniac tipped his hand by rushing into the fire station a few minutes before the gong rang, shouting: "Where's the fire...
...hardly the right description. The net effect of the Army's ill-considered blast was to discredit the free world's press in the eyes of its own readers, and to provide grist for the Communist propaganda mill. Cried the Peking radio next day: "The Iron Curtain rang down with a clang today, and was marked 'Made in Tokyo...
...Second Contact. Almost before he could give range and bearing, the Higbee was going into action. The officer of the deck rang for flank speed; the helmsman spun the wheel to comb the torpedo track. Alarm gonging, the Higbee heeled over, gathered speed. Captain Soballe tore on to the bridge; the crew clattered to battle stations...
...Sousse, 800 Arabs armed with sticks of dynamite battled police armed with tear gas. A jaunty French colonel, full-uniformed to campaign ribbons and kepi, attempted to argue with them. Two pistol shots rang out, a heavy club landed on the colonel's unhelmeted head, and when the skirmish was done, an Arab dagger was found plunged into his chest. The colonel walked to his jeep and died. Eight Arabs were killed and 20 wounded in the battle. At Porto Farina, a Tommy gun mowed down one gendarme from behind a cactus hedge. "I've been stationed here...