Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their heads. Staff officers urged the general to abandon the trip. At each objection the MacArthur jaw jutted out a little farther. "We go," said Douglas MacArthur. A little after 6 a.m. June 29, the wheels of the Bataan rolled down the wet Haneda runway, churning up a fine spray. Soon after the plane was airborne, MacArthur pulled out the corncob pipe which had been one of his World War II trademarks. "I don't smoke this back there in Tokyo," he said. "They'd think I was a farmer...
After four hours, a chief spoke up. "Well, Barnes, goddammit," he said, "it looks like you've got just what us birds up here need." For $10,000 Barnes agreed to spray the clouds, with silver-iodide particles for three months...
...that point eight FBI agents, who had been waiting outside, went into action. There was a spray of gunfire; Wayne Long fired back, injuring one of the FBI men. Then Long himself, after dashing for a block, fell to the ground wounded...
Then, while he was in the neighborhood, the Senator fired a spray of buckshot over his shoulder at all renegade Communists. "It has become the fashion to lionize and extol the ex-Communist in America today," said he. "Ex-Communists are treated as heroes of the republic. They are rushed to forums from which to denounce good citizens who always opposed Communism, but refused to make merchandise of their patriotism...
...Salisbury Plain, "creeping like a criminal," he says, to capture the call of the grass warbler. Badgered by such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks off the Pembrokeshire coast. He is postponing his retirement at least until he can get on wax the elusive stone curlew and the long-tailed...