Word: tomahawked
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...Hardly a tomahawk's throw" from the sleekly modern Minneapolis Tribune building, wrote Tribune Reporter Carl Rowan last week, thousands of Indian families huddle in "the dark, squalid, bug-infested dwellings that fit society's idea of what an Indian wants or deserves." Flocking out of barren, overpopulated reservations in hope of finding work in the cities, reported Rowan, they soon "drift into a world of dark hopelessness." In Minneapolis, so-called "City of Hope," there are 8,000 Indians, but few employers will hire them. Jammed into rickety tenements and Skid Row hovels, said Rowan, most...
...passing is the Indians sharpest tomahawk, it has been badly chipped by the injury of alternate quarterback Leo McKenna. McKenna at his best with short spot passes completed 41 out of 71 last season, and was a better defensive back than Beagle...
...fighting was often bitter-end, even by modern standards: American volunteer suicide squads were killed or wounded almost to a man in breaching the British defenses at Stony Point; Americans, Indians and British troops, their flintlocks useless from rain, milled in wild combat with knife, musket butt and tomahawk at Oriskany in the New York wilderness. Cowpens, Brandywine, Germantown-all were bloody. The revolution pitted strange adversaries. At Eutaw Springs, the American force was heavily loaded with British deserters, the British force with American deserters. Kilted Scottish-American settlers fought for the king with broadswords at Moore's Creek...
...noon sun beat down on the hawklike face of Captain Lewis Millett of South Dartmouth, Mass., on husky, handsome Master Sergeant Stanley Adams of Olathe, Kans., on the nervous stare of Captain Raymond Harvey of Pasadena, Calif., on the stony and disfigured mask of Sergeant Einar Ingman of Tomahawk...
...rolled into battered Munsan through vicious enemy rifle and machine-gun fire. Throughout the night, Reds to the north and east shelled and mortared paratroopers and rangers who were stalking the rear elements of a North Korean motorized regiment which had been retreating north when cut off by "Operation Tomahawk." The Red guns were still going throughout the next morning. Helicopters threshed in to dusty landings in the D.Z. and whirred up again with wounded men. In the sunlight, the red, blue, green, yellow and white cargo chutes and mottled green personnel chutes, dropped the day before, gleamed vividly against...