Word: stens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curious mountain war sputtered on. At Yusmarg, a tiny Himalayan village near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, Indian police fought off a night attack by "hundreds" of Pakistani infiltrators armed with mortars, light machine guns and Sten guns. On the winding highway between Srinagar and Leh, a vital link to Indian forces manning the Communist Chinese border in Ladakh, a 14-man police detail guarding a wooden bridge clashed with night raiders...
Rifles and Sten guns rattling, they fired point-blank into the seated hostages. The gunners picked women and children as their first targets. Many whites flopped onto the pavement, pretending to be dead. Others did not have to pretend. One Belgian child was cut in half by a Sten-gun burst. Parents who flung themselves over their children were stitched by the wild bullets that sprayed the crowd. A woman sat openmouthed as gunfire chopped down the people on either side of her. She somehow came through unhurt...
...Satevepost, Lennon's "graphospasms" were even hairier than the songs he helps write. "Little did he nose," writes Lennon "that the next day a true story would actually happen." He peoples his retelling of Treasure Island with Large John Saliver, Small Jack Hawkins, Blind Jew, Cpt. Smellit and Sten Gunn. "As far as I'm conceived," he says on the book jacket, "this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready." A larf all the whee to Barclays', no dute...
...sympathizing. He is shot at by terrorists, but even this does not upset his routine of work, liquor, sleep and sun bathing. His sleepwalking ends when he seduces a Cypriot girl. Before his guilt can bring him to renounce his job, the girl's young brother empties a Sten gun into a cafe where Barbour is sitting. Five men die: Barbour is untouched. It is he who must question the terrorist brother. His predicament has become truly modern: that is, it has no solution...
...area of eroded farm land on the Indian Ocean. Nobody knows the troubles it has seen. Ever since Africans went on a rampage there more than two years ago, murdering the government's handpicked tribal chiefs and setting fire to entire villages, mobile police patrols armed with Sten guns, armored cars, and helicopter spotter planes have had to stay on duty in parts of the Transkei. Fortnight ago, a white family of four were capriciously hacked to death with pangas as they stumbled down the steps of their burning trailer, set afire while parked on a road only...