Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malmédy massacre of captured U.S. soldiers, during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, was one of the most vicious atrocities committed by Germans in combat during the war. By the testimony of one survivor (who escaped by feigning death after he was shot in the foot), some 160 U.S. soldiers were lined up in a snow-covered field, eight deep and 20 abreast, and raked by machine-gun fire for three minutes...
Five Planes. Their pleasure was shortlived. On the very day the Palestine ceasefire took effect, five British reconnaissance planes were shot down over Egypt by Israeli fighters and ground batteries. The planes, said the British, were operating from British bases in the Suez Canal Zone; they were under orders to keep an eye on the movements of the Israeli army into Egypt...
...Israelis were impressed, but not intimidated. The British, they said, had no business flying reconnaissance over someone else's war. Furthermore, three of the British planes had been shot down over Palestine, and they had the charred wreckage of one to prove it. The British troop landings at Aquaba, cried an official spokesman, "can have no purpose but to threaten Israel's territory in the southern part of the Negeb...
...Haya had lingered much longer in Peru he might have faced a common murder charge. Two years ago Rightist Publisher Francisco Graña had been shot down as he left his Lima office. Rightists laid the murder to the Apristas, then riding high in cabinet and Congress. Aprista denials were none too convincing; soon the party was on the run before the rightist barrage. Last October APRA was outlawed. Three weeks later, General Manuel Odria seized the government, ordered the immediate trial of seven Apristas who had been indicted for Grana's murder. When the trial opened last...
Because of the characteristics of its molecules, gaseous ammonia absorbs radio microwaves of certain sharp frequencies. When such waves are shot through ammonia gas, the radio waves are absorbed as long as they are vibrating at the right speed. If they vibrate too fast or too slow, an electronic device retunes the transmitter and makes the waves vibrate at the exact frequency that is absorbed most strongly. Thus the waves, regulated by the ammonia molecules as the escapement of a clock is regulated by its pendulum, keep to a steady beat. Hitched to a "frequency divider," they measure time accurately...