Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Look at 'Em Run." There was no fun after that. A troop of new marchers left King's church command post next day intoning: "We Want Freedom." They passed several hundred Negro adults in a park near the church, marched toward a massed line of lawmen, ignoring a police captain who warned them to stop. Blackbooted firemen turned on their hoses. The kids fell back from the crushing streams. The water pressure increased. Children fell, and lay there bleeding. The march stopped...
...Little John (twelve miles), a smaller version of Honest, with a 360° firing circle and designed for maximum mobility; it can be transported by helicopter or troop-carrying aircraft, or towed by a Jeep, and is fired like an artillery shell from a tripod launcher. »An 8-in. howitzer (ten miles), a rapid-fire job that can pepper 200-lb. projectiles at a rate of 90 per hour. »Davy Crockett (1,200 yds.), the Army's smallest and top-rated front-line weapon, a light, tube-fired piece designed for use against troop masses, tank clusters...
...China Sea, and though the move had been planned for months, Washington picked last week to announce that two combat-ready battle groups would soon move into Thailand to take part in next month's full-scale SEATO battle maneuvers. It was reminiscent of the crash buildup of troop strength in Thailand just a year ago, when the last serious flare-up in Laos took place. Left behind when these troops were withdrawn were enough trucks, tanks and personnel carriers to equip a third battle group that might be needed in the event of emergency...
...three weeks, the Red forces, reinforced by cadres of Viet Minh troop commanders, mortar specialists and artillery advisers from Communist North Viet Nam, had been nibbling away at neutralist positions around the 30-mile perimeter of the grassy, pool-table-flat Plaine des Jarres. Strategically placed in the center of Laos, the plain-named after the ancient stone burial jars still found in the area-controls the approaches to the rest of the country and is the primary access route to North Viet Nam. With the Plaine des Jarres in their hands, the Reds could solidify their hold...
...British consul arrived from Boston and joined ranks at the head of a troop of Minute Men dressed in Revolutionary garb. "Odaaaah-HOO!" the leader cried; or at any rate, that was the gist of what he said. The consul snapped his heels together, standing tall, slim, wearing a proper bowler and a double-breasted navy pinstripe. British tailoring, you know, jacket rather shorter than American. Nipped in at the waist Righto...