Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traumatic event. I must have seen some before in magazines or books but never in the flesh. I approached one, felt his hair, scratched at his cheek, he hit me in the head with a baseball bat. They found me crumpled in a heap just outside the schoolyard fence...
...Nation of Breast Worshipers?". Sexual Behavior seems almost ashamed of its subject. Most of the articles are by M.D.s and Ph.D.s and so mustily mid-Victorian in style and tone that educated adults will not discover much they did not find out about in schoolyard bull sessions as kids...
...diversionary attacks. Communist raiders occupied a railway station and shelled a munitions factory, a pagoda, the Cambodian navy base on the Mekong and a schoolyard in the city itself. On the horizon, the glow of flames could be seen above the town of Kompong Kantuot, 15 miles from the capital but well within its so-called "defense perimeter...
...night of Dec. 11, a force of as many as 3,000 Communist soldiers struck at Prey Totung. They quickly seized the center of town and drove the 400 Cambodian soldiers there into the schoolyard, where they remained, surrounded and cut off, for five days. "Most of the time we could not even lift our heads," says Lieut. Colonel Srey Yar, the competent young local commander...
...days passed, the enemy hit the schoolyard with .50-cal. machine-gun bullets, mortars, and a giant 122-mm. rocket that toppled a 60-ft. tree. At the height of the battle, Srey Yar sent a radio message to Lon Nol promising that he and his men would not surrender. Even though they ran short of ammunition and food, and were outnumbered by about 5 to 1, they kept their word, but the cost was fearfully high. Of the 400 Cambodians, 50 were killed and 300 wounded, including 114 critically. Estimates of enemy soldiers killed ranged from...