Word: sightings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to assure you that it is not an everyday sight-"a tight-lipped child followed by other children shrilly jeering, 'Your father's a dirty scab...
...very sight of government airborne troops seems to be an unnerving thing for rebel commanders. When 200 paratroopers fluttered down into the Central Sumatran oil center of Pakanbaru, an 800-man rebel garrison took to the hills (TIME, March 24). Last week the hard-working paratroopers were shifted to Medan, the North Sumatran rubber metropolis of 520,000 people that had just been seized by some 1,500 rebels under Major Boyk Nangolan. As the grimy paratroopers in their red berets moved in, Major Nangolan hastily moved out, first scooping up 18 million rupiahs from a local bank and taking...
...proportion who carry the resistant strains, causing disease outbreaks, may be only 4% to 12%, but once a wave of infections starts rolling, it is hard to stop. Healthy adults have a high degree of immunity, but its nature is not yet understood, and no vaccine is in sight. The newborn and very old are especially susceptible, and so are patients recovering from surgery...
Down the main street of the tiny Cypriot village of Vassa one night last week strode 15 masked men in strict military order. A year ago, the sight of such gunmen meant that some one had been singled out for death as a collaborator with the British. But this time the EOKA men proved to be bound on a singularly innocent errand. Invading the village coffee shop, they ordered its customers to face the wall, then searched their pockets for British cigarettes...
...exhibits and 21,091 pages of testimony, at a cost of $1,500,000 to the Government and companies without reaching a decision. ¶| The Federal Communications Com mission has been listening to the arguments of seven applicants for a Toledo TV channel since 1952, with no end in sight. Says an FCC official: "We'd do just as well to draw a name from...