Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine guns, have killed 101 persons, wounded 189 more. France's reverses in Indo-China have given the insurgents new heart. Recently, they circulated clandestine letters saying that "Casablanca will be another Dienbienphu." Help from the Hills. In retaliation for the terror, Guillaume's police jailed a thousand suspects, of whom 300 still await trial. Day after day his gendarmes roamed the cities, questioning the rich and searching the workingmen. If a suspect was caught with an out-of-date banknote (a symbol used by Istiqlal members for identification), he was likely to be jailed on charges...
Magsaysay's retort was to order the army to launch a powerful new operation to "get Taruc." Ten thousand men kept it up for 90 days. The troops started using dogs and a squadron of cavalry to track down the Huks. And the President's program of rural roads, artesian wells and other assistances to the poor farmers began taking effect. The peasants were beginning to collaborate with government instead of with the rebels. They began selling information for a few pesos...
Personally I wouldn't have traded a thousand days on the French Riviera...
...Priceless Possession. As the royal yacht moved closer to shore at the river's mouth, the Queen was more plainly discernible. Like perhaps a thousand or more other mothers on the shore at that precise moment, she was firmly gripping the coat collar of her squirming son to keep him from leaning too perilously over the rail. The cheers that rose at the sight of her familiar, youthful, dignified figure on the Britannia's deck were tinged with relief and thanksgiving. It is part of the family feeling that characterizes the British attitude toward its monarchy that...
...Quite honestly," says Morgan, "we can and do read. We can and do see paintings and hear music . . . During the past few years, American universities have paid out thousands of dollars to bring scholars. To speak bluntly, these scholars have all too often insulted our students and ourselves by presenting lectures which the most naive young instructor on our staff could give without any preparation . . . We cannot feel happy about spending our money to bring a distinguished guest one hundred or three thousand miles to hear him recite the alphabet...