Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Black Mac yielded 20 hard-core top EOKA leaders, four of them with prices of $14,000 on their heads (which the soldiers are ineligible to collect), 2,000 rounds of ammunition, scores of hand grenades and dozens of revolvers, half-a-dozen Thompson submachine guns and a 3.5 bazooka. The British had reason to congratulate them selves, and did. Said pink-cheeked, wax-mustached Brigadier J. A. Hopwood: "It was like a jolly big shoot, and my men acted as beaters...
...WHATEVER COST, by R. W. Thompson (215 pp.; Coward-McCann; $3.50), tells the story of the famed 1942 raid against the German-held port of Dieppe, in which 6,100 officers and men (mostly Canadians) started out and less than a third returned. For months, reconnaissance aircraft had surveyed German defense, but when the raid started, German artillery slid out of hideaways in the cliffs, poured shells point-blank into men and landing craft. The "average life" of the invaders on the beach was "measured in a handful of seconds." Author Thompson, a British war correspondent, ably describes "the shuddering...
Wind & the Wallows. In Washington, D.C., the judge dismissed a drunk charge against William Thompson after learning what made him walk with a list: "The wind was blowing awfully hard and I only weigh 119 pounds...
...mile relay, the Crimson was unable to offset a disastrously slow first leg by Bob Weil, who passed off to Bill Thompson nearly a half lap behind first-running Yale. Thompson made up a little of this deficit, but neither Dave Spinney nor Dave McLean could close...
...mile, McCurdy has had to double Norris, who, along with Dave McLean and Bill Thompson, cannot compare with the departed Wills and Ken Wilson. He does have an outstanding miler in Phil Williams, who nearly broke the mile record outdoors last year. But Williams is notoriously poor indoors, a condition which just might be as much psychological as physical...