Word: sten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader of the commando gang. The raiders were members of the Irish Republican Army, that outlawed, audacious nationalistic group which, in prewar days, used to plant time bombs in the British mails to reinforce its demand for the unification of Ireland. Swiftly, they went to work, loading rifles, Sten guns, light machine guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition into a fleet of cars that rolled in through the main gate, then vanished into the night. Not until three hours later did one of the sentries free himself and send the alarm...
Hammarskjold's relaxations were even more strenuous. Weekends, Hammarskjold would often disappear to climb a mountain, alone. "On vacations." says his brother Sten, "he still puts on an open-neck shirt and shorts, and with his hair streaming in the wind, pedals his bicycle furiously along the roads of Sweden." On one occasion, Hammarskjold cycled to a town in the south of Sweden and asked for a hotel room. The clerk examined the sweaty, youthful figure in shorts, with rucksack, and told him to try the youth hostel. The chairman of the board of the Bank of Sweden...
Edward D. Churchill, Jr., '56; Patrick T. Colt '55; Ernest B. Dane '55 (captain); Lindsay E. Fischer '56; Christopher C. Ingraham '55; Sten Lium '56; Joseph B. Poindexter '57; Charles H. Thomas H '56 James L. Gale '57 (manager...
...Jerusalem last week, the U.N.'s Israel-Egypt Mixed Armistice Commission condemned Egypt for the recent "brutal and murderous attack" (with grenades and Sten guns) on an Israeli wedding party on Israeli territory, in which one woman was killed and 22 persons wounded...
...hand grenades arched through the night air, down among the circling dancers. The explosions toppled dancers like ninepins; 22 lay groaning and bloody on the bare earth. One 22-year-old girl was dead. The survivors dragged the wounded to shelter in the house amidst a hail of Sten gunfire. In the darkness the two attackers slipped off toward Egyptian-held Gaza, 14 miles away...