Word: troops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tardily but impressively, a simulated mushroom cloud rose over the coastal hills of Thracian Turkey. Huge amphibious tanks churned up golden Aegean beaches, and troop-laden helicopters scissored down out of azure Mediterranean skies. Then 8,000 U.S. Marines who had come 6,000 miles from Virginia in four weeks, landed in Turkey last week to grab a stake of ground just north of the historic shores of Gallipoli. The tactical problem set for NATO's Operation Deep Water was to assume that Turkey had been invaded from the north, and in 40 days' fighting, the Turkish NATO...
...occupied Norway the symbol for defiance of Hitler's Nazis was not Winston Churchill's stubby-fingered V for victory, but an H crossed by the figure 7. Painted on walls, tramped out in the snow, scratched on the sides of Nazi troop trains, chalked on Gestapo command cars, perpetually erased, perpetually reappearing, the omnipresent H7 was a perennial reminder to the people of Norway and to their occupiers that the true sovereign of their indomitable spirit was their exiled King Haakon...
Public prostitution flourishes more conspicuously in London than it does in any other major capital in the world, providing a sight that U.S. tourists, expecting London to be staid and sedate, stare at in fascinated wonderment. From noon until the small hours of the morning, London's vast troop of trollops are busy as squirrels in the fashionable West End as well as in Limehouse. Many have regular stations. They throng four deep on the sidewalks under the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus, patrol Mayfair, Park Lane and-Bond Street with the lighthearted aplomb of 4-H members...
...Castro cause, mutinied at dawn and quickly seized control of the Cienfuegos naval station, built on a peninsula in the town's harbor. They clapped pro-Batista officers in the brig and swept out through town in jeeps, carrying arms from the post arsenal. A 60-man troop of maritime police and some 200 pro-Castro civilians were waiting to join them. The rebels swept into Marti Park in the center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes circled overhead, the rebels charged, and after...
Last week the Congress also: ¶ Voted in the House to give Songstress Jane Froman $138,205 for crippling injuries suffered in a Pan American World Airways crash at Lisbon in 1943 while she was on a troop-entertaining mission. The amount of damages that Miss Froman could collect from the airline was limited to $9,050 (including lost baggage) under the Warsaw Convention of 1929, an international treaty imposing a ceiling of $8,300 on allowable damages for physical injuries suffered in international flights unless the claimant can prove willful misconduct. By thus voting public funds to correct...