Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About a thousand wounded are waiting in Dienbienphu. waiting for the end of their nightmare. Every day anxious telegrams are sent out from the fortress asking for blood plasma and drugs . . . Only 25 beds were set up in the underground hospital, because it was believed that the wounded would be brought to Hanoi by plane. The beds have increased to 400, and four surgeons have to cut away arms and legs which are threatened by gangrene, which they could have saved under normal conditions...
...there a chance of relief? Was Red General Giap's army as worn out as the garrison? Or would the outcome be the simple probability-death or Red captivity in one of three bitter ways: a sudden, crushing onset in the dark, or death by the thousand cuts of a siege, or surrender with the honors of war? There were lurking uncertainties in the dusk of Dienbienphu, and sometimes the tired men could hear the Red loudspeakers through the cacophony of mortars and the lizards. "The hour of our victory has struck," the Red loudspeakers mocked them. "We shall...
...VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT TEISAIRE Also a vote from Eva Perón. explained, "I will come and say 'Hey! Hold on, boy. Now it's mine!' He will say it cost him money . . . Then I will pay him what it has cost." Thirty thousand Peronistas cheered lustily...
When Chicago faced a blackout of the hearings after NBC and Tribune station WGN-TV dropped the show, Marshall Field Jr.'s Sun-Times stepped in, guaranteed "several thousand dollars a day" to help the local ABC outlet keep the show...
...they can work out a good method of their own. "The fact is," says one M-K executive, "there's a lot we can learn from them." By patient explanation and endless demonstration, tribesmen are coaxed off camels and onto roaring cats, and ancient peoples are taught a thousand undreamed of modern skills...