Word: slittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine guns and mortars, U.S. 105-and 155-mm. howitzers and two airfields big enough for transports, but not for jets. Quemoy's peasants are a stoical lot who sit outside their baked-mud huts in the evenings, slapping at clouds of mosquitoes-and ready to dive for slit trenches if the Communist artillery opens...
...Morocco's future took place in the city of Port Lyautey. There 8.000 to 10.000 resentful Arabs, led by single-minded nationalists, had gone on a rampage in the medina (native quarter) the week before. They killed seven Europeans, including a woman and her daughter, whose stomachs they slit open with knives. The women's bodies were dragged through the streets of the medina. The French last week retaliated with a brutal show of force known as ratissage, literally a "raking-in." TIME Correspondent Frank White, an eyewitness, cabled this description...
...that one can eat well in serene Saigon (and you can, for the cuisine is French) while ignoring the few at the end of the line who are laying their lives on the line. In the dance halls, the local girls sit in a row, dressed in colored tunics slit high and trousers that look like silk pajamas. Their painted faces advertise that they exist for joyless pleasures. In Saigon officers and officials take siestas. All these things are true. But still, Indo-China is not a very pleasant place to be in, even in the soft and untouched places...
...just a slit, directly behind the eye. When you're shooting from the side, that's the target . . . His brain is right under . . . Crocodile tears? . . . After I've shot them I've found tear stains down their cheeks. It's my theory they shed them when straining to open their mouths wider for a big chunk of meat...
...deduced, had not only taken a bath in the trough but had carefully heated the water first. Another hunter, according to the association's files, rode out on the range in search of game, dismounted to reconnoiter, sighted an animal, shot it, rushed up, knife in hand, to slit his quarry's throat, and discovered that he had done in his own horse...