Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return to the main part of the prison, held the remaining six as additional hostages, and forced them to start digging a tunnel through the concrete floor of Cherry Hill. The escape tunnel was abandoned when water seeped into it. The desperate four demanded that Governor Christian Herter send them a getaway car. "One shot, one gas bomb," Green shouted across the prison yard, "and all five of your screws die." Massachusetts Attorney General George Fingold replied over a public-address system: "If one of those guards dies, you all die in the electric chair." As news...
...attack on Costa Rica was both an invasion and a rebellion: it came from northern neighbor Nicaragua, but the attackers were nearly all insurrectionary Costa Rican expatriates. It failed as an invasion because any invasion becomes international business, and other American nations cooperated to seal off the invaders and send arms-specifically four F51 Mustang fighter planes* to the victim. It failed as a rebellion because the rebels were inept and badly misjudged their own strength...
...after eleven days of fighting, most of his troops, punished by the Mustangs and harassed by the Loyalists, stumbled into the borderline buffer zone created by the Organization of American States. Back in San José, President Figueres, referring to West Pointer Picado's tactics, chortled: "You can send them to school, but you can't give them brains...
...have no exact idea how much money we have been receiving-we send it right along to Kamin," Solomon said, "but the response has encouraged us to hope we say be able to raine all the money necessary...
...Club's committee eventually approves the plans, it will ask an alumni group to raise the necessary money. Similar to groups already in existence to support the baseball, crew, golf, and hockey teams, this organization. The friends of Harvard Sailing, was formed last year to send a sailing team to the National championships in California...