Word: sten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here & there police and soldiers, armed with Sten and Bren guns, did their best to herd the homeless into improvised stockades to protect them from the blacks. From one stockade the panicked Indians tried to escape by jumping from a 500-foot cliff as a swarm of Zulus bore down on them screaming shrill battle cries...
...minutes later, in Jerusalem's Katamon quarter (formerly an Arab residential district, now held by Israeli forces), the Count's cream-colored Chrysler was stopped at a roadblock. From a jeep stepped two men in Israeli army uniforms, carrying Sten guns. While U.S. Colonel Frank Begley (a U.N. observer who drove the Count's car) grappled with one of the men, the other looked into the car, recognized the Count, shoved his gun through the window and started shooting. The bullets went straight through the ribbons on Bernadotte's uniform. Said General Lundstrom, who sat beside...
Mystical Ends. Ben-Gurion lives on a typical Tel Aviv boulevard, in a two-story stucco house, distinguished from its neighbors only by the soldiers with Sten guns at the entrance. In his library about a third of the books are on military history and tactics; next in number are books about Greek philosophy and Buddha, his current study. (Zionists all over the world scout up rare Buddhist books for Ben-Gurion...
...police rounded up the third man and handcuffed him along with six women and another man found in the house. We were just about to leave when the whole hollow suddenly exploded with a blast of Bren guns, Sten guns, and rifles firing in rapid bursts. Bullets spat in the dirt and sizzled through the grass. Two hand grenades exploded, as a third bounced harmlessly on the ground...
Close to the Costa Rican frontier, 100 Costa Rican exiles and Nicaraguans were getting small-arms training. Last fortnight a like group staged a practice patrol across the border. Figueres forces shot them up, captured some Nicaraguans bearing Sten guns which had been shipped in by Trujillo...