Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally General Michael Andonopoulos, commanding the 8th Mountain Division, sent a detachment up to Konitsa by a mule track. This force, pushing through a thin screen of snipers, got into the town across an old Turkish bridge. Thus Konitsa was reinforced by 2,000 men. Ebullient government communiqués claimed that the "routed" rebels were fleeing north into Albania and east into their Gramos Mountain stronghold. But next day the rebels attacked Konitsa again. At week's end, they attacked Philiates, near the coast opposite Corfu, 45 miles from Konitsa. Government officers, somewhat apologetically, explained that the stubborn...
...uniformed policemen stood outside the Oxford Grill and fire trucks were summoned to put out the smoke shell screen used by the felons. Curious at the speady start of the bandit car on Church Street, one, Patrolman Joseph Gould, took down the license number "for the hell...
...Smoke Screen...
Equipped with a larger screen and projector, the Union group hopes to get permission to use the dinning hall instead of the Common Room, in order to accommodate more spectators...
...handling of Joe, the Negro soldier, is particularly interesting: the natives frankly treat him as something of a freak and are quite unabashed in so stating. Yet beneath their curiosity, lies a genuine respect which permits Joe to attain individuality and equality seldom before accorded a Negro on the screen...