Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced the news: Big Joe, the funnel-shaped prototype of the vehicle that will carry the first U.S. man into space in 1961, had been shot aloft in a test and had been recovered intact. Had a man been inside for the historic flight, he would have made his return in complete safety...
...first flicker of uneasiness was aroused in the defenders of Xieng Kho when a night reconnaissance patrol went out and did not return. Toward dawn the next day, a sentry spotted some shadowy figures and fired warning shots. As he did so, a red flare blossomed in the night, and from three sides mortar shells rained down on the village and its entrenchments. As the troops scrambled to their positions, they were raked by heavy fire from machine guns and 57 mm. recoilless rifles...
...front he could get came from runners, a handful of Red prisoners and an endless stream of refugees :women with babies, men burdened with mattresses and sewing machines, a ten-year-old boy toting a submachine gun that his father, an ex-home guard, had told him to return to the government. To reach the area of a reported fight only 20 miles away in the jungle took Amkha's troops nearly three days' march. The wounded died where they fell, or were borne by litter, dugout canoe or oxcart only to reach the hospital with fatally gangrenous...
...promise, the Imam had ordered the decapitation of one of his subjects and the amputation of the left hand and right foot of 15 others, in punishment for the murder of a high official last June. Clearly, the Imam's particular brand of peace was about to return to Arabia Felix...
...Guterma: "I have never been an agent for any foreign government, and I have no intention of being one." Roach and Culpepper also denied the charge, but the Dominican Republic announced that it had filed suit in the U.S. District Court against Guterma and associates for fraudulent misrepresentation, seeks return of the $750,000 it says it paid...