Word: torch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these terms that Baldwin criticized the United States relation to Cuba, and with African and Asian nations. "We must learn that it is no longer a matter of missionaries bringing a torch to the natives. We have to learn that this is a matter of life and death for the world as we know...
Born. To Edward Durell Stone, 60, Arkansas-born architect, and Second Wife Maria Torch Stone, 35; their second child, first daughter; in London...
...letter from his prison cell, the captured leader of the S.A.O., ex-General Raoul Salan, backed the truce. The fanatical S.A.O. leadership in Oran swore to continue the struggle. S.A.O. mortar shells landed on oil tanks near Oran. In Bone, the city hall was put to the torch by S.A.O. fanatics. The exodus of Europeans continued at the rate...
...opening night, guests wandered around the huge pool (where during daylight hours bikini-clad "starlets" would bring the indolent customer a drink or a cold cut) under the flickering light of a huge gold torch, which belched flames...
...days not a single Moslem was shot down in the streets by S.A.O. terrorists. The mortars that usually lobbed shells into the Casbah were silent. No booby-trapped autos exploded in the midst of Moslem crowds. Instead, there was the crackling of flames as the S.A.O. put to the torch the Europeans' own schools, public buildings and farms. The new policy was called Operation 1830, in memory of the year the French colonization of Algeria began. Its announced purpose: to reduce the country to the state in which the French found it more than a century ago. In fact...