Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Order to Shoot. The case began at an Air Force bomb dump in Taegu in September 1952. One night. Toth was on duty as sergeant of the guard. As he told the story later: "A gook who was drunk came into the area. The guard was on duty with a dog, and he hollered twice to the gook to halt, and when the gook didn't stop, he tried to get the dog to stop him, [but] the dog wouldn't attack. Then the guard fired two shots. These shots woke me, and I went to the area...
...Utah to approach from the north; the other cut across the Arizona strip to hit Short Creek from the east. An eclipse of the moon cloaked their movements. But as it turned out, the Short Creekers knew all about the raid, and had stationed boys along the road to shoot off dynamite and thus announce its arrival...
...across the front, hours after the : truce agreement was signed, the big guns roared. U.N. artillerymen were under orders not to shoot unless shot at. The Reds, however, wanted to slug it out until the 10 p.m. bell. The Communists fired round after round at U.N. trenches; the Eighth Army guns fired back at the Red cannon. Said one marine wounded on the last day: "I guess those fellows on the other side didn't get the word...
...already there, two were dead. One after the other, three more were killed as Communist fire poured in. Deane dashed out to get a jeep started, got a bullet in his hand, four in his thigh. When the Communists charged and captured the house, their first act was to shoot the wounded G.I.s who could not stand. Then the survivors were stripped, kicked, beaten and marched off. At each village, they were turned over to the civilians to be beaten further. The heat and thirst became maddening: "Rice paddies are fertilized with human excreta, but we drank, drank deep...
...Little. Wilson, as Viertel introduces him, is an extreme type of the Hemingway generation. Liquor all day, women all night, and then off to Kenya to get straight with God by horn-wrestling a buffalo. In Wilson's case, it's off to the Congo to shoot a few elephants before making a movie in the middle of the jungle...