Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giresun, where a detachment of soldiers with fixed bayonets surrounded him the moment he stepped ashore, Gulek tried waving to onlookers, only to be warned by the police chief: "You are creating a political demonstration by waving. Kindly desist." At fabled Trebizond, where Xenophon's weary Ten Thousand finally reached the sea, the police tried to whisk Gulek from the dock to party headquarters in a car. When he insisted on making the trip by foot, they used clubs and jeeps to scatter the crowds that gathered to catch sight of him. At a later stop, a provincial subgovernor...
What the situation was as of last week nobody in the Burmese government really knew, since all roads leading to the Wa States had been washed out by monsoon rains. The Burmese army estimates that the Chinese Reds have expanded their occupation forces to "a few thousand men" and now hold about 1,000 square miles of Burmese territory...
...This Relief ... In Thousand Oaks, Calif., ailing E. E. Brossard, 71, agreed to submit to a rubdown from two professed faith healers who promised it would make him "feel relieved," found after the massagers left that they had relieved him of his wallet...
...turning point was last spring's elections, in which Communist China spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Burmese Communists win 40 seats from U Nu's ruling Socialists. "Interference of the most brazen kind," a top Burmese neutralist called it. The Burmese have also had their business disenchantments with their cynical Communist trading partners. Despite fine promises of the latest machinery and steel, all the Russians ever sent them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks...
This is an age far greater than any ever established previously for human traces in the New World. Apparently some sort of human, who never developed much in the way of culture, was hunting in the U.S. Southwest many thousand years before paleolithic man made his striking pictures in the caves of France...