Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...withdrawing French Legionnaires had an answer to that question. Hidden in the jungle at the road's edge and concealed in the ruins of an old Chinese fort on a nearby hilltop, the 308th was watching the approach of the French column. Now, over a 2,000-yard strip of the road, they let the French have it. Lobbed hand grenades turned trucks into burning wrecks, while rifle and machine-gun fire blasted down the Legionnaires. Then the Viet Minh leaped into the road with daggers and machetes. The French column, cut in half, pulled back north and south...
...west of Hanoi, the only remaining bastion of the Black River defense line. An airlift (a plane every 15 minutes) was bringing reinforcements into Nasan and flying out thousands of Sonla's refugees. Situated in a wide-open plateau, rare in that country, Nasan, with its fortified air strip and embrasured artillery, dug in for a spiky hedgehog battle...
...Luchese. Agents of the FBI, the Internal Revenue Bureau, the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau, the New York state income tax division and the New York state parole board had all started nosing around in Tommy's past, and Attorney General James McGranery had begun proceedings to strip Luchese of his citizenship as a first move toward deportation...
...tried his first "They'll Do It Every Time," was so flooded with letters from readers suggesting ideas that he has drawn it ever since. By 1943, Trem-blechin's dreadful little daughter Iodine had become so gruesomely popular that Hatlo put her into a Sunday strip...
Chicago's Clinton Specialty Works has a toy electric vacuum cleaner that gathers dust ($12.95). One doll has hair that "grows" by means of a winding device hidden in the head; another, "Joan Pa-looka" from the comic strip, is permanently scented, comes with baby powder and soap ($7). A new method of rooting hair in the scalp makes many dolls safe against countless hair-brushings and curl ings - until brother comes along with his toy barber...