Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fighting for him, on one flank, there was a detachment of Muongs, hill people from the "Country of the Killing Water," where they hunt pigs with bows & arrows. Now, armed with rifles, they were stalking a Red column. As they edged forward under Communist machine-gun fire, clouds of smoke and dust rose ahead of them as French artillery pounded the Communist positions. On the other flank, a battalion of turbaned Moroccans attacked Hill 101 chanting, "There...
...speaks five languages fluently and orates brilliantly in one of them, his own Portuguese. He rarely drinks, and berates associates or even strangers who smoke in his presence. He seldom sleeps more than 3½ hours a night, and can get along nicely for short spells on an hour and a half. Says Chato: "The great cannibal of our period is time. I fight it aggressively...
Best of its stories is "The Rain-Crows," by Billy Joyner. Joyner writes with smooth skill and acute perception of the black earth of the South, and the people and their passions which grow in it. His description is simple yet detailed--Joyner writes with care of the smoke rising from the burning brush of a pasture, of a dead crow hanging stiff from the wire of a fence--at the same time, his words move with an easy rhythm that carries along the detail in a nice balance of sound...
When, Why, Where? Douglas began with an essential pointone sometimes obscured by the smoke of the oratory. The whole U.S. was agreed "on the basic ends we seek, namely, to protect our country from Communist aggression . . . The differences are merely on means and methods . . . When, at what points, how, and with whom should we prepare to defend ourselves...
Flaming Broom. At Kimpo airfield, there was no time to save 500,000 gallons of fuel and 23,000 gallons of napalm (jellied gasoline for fire bombs). They went up in black smoke. The airfield barracks were soaked with kerosene; then a captain ran from one to another, setting them afire with a flaming broom. At Inchon, the port troops and thousands of civilians were evacuated under the guns of warships of five nations (U.S., British, Canadian, Australian, Dutch). The last two LSTs were floated off the mud flats by a high tide as the Chinese were swarming into...