Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad of riflemen in the brush beside the fairway, muttered something about their ruining the rough. As the golfers prepared to tee off, there was a burst of rifle fire. The soldiers had come upon a long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...
...asks every possible pertinent question. How did they meet? Any previous marriages or children? How much sex experience does each have? How much education? How do their families feel about it? How do they view the responsibilities of marriage? If the chaplain approves, he advises the airman's unit commander whether the marriage should be permitted, delayed or discouraged (and few British parsons or registrars will marry them without the commanding officer's certificate of approval...
...front benches. In his first bud-get message as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1951, for example, he presented complex economic data underlying a major Socialist policy change with such vigor and clarity that the House discarded its normal reserve for such matters and rose to applaud as a unit. As a high minister in the Socialist government and as questionner for the opposition in the locust years since 1951, he has made constant use of his mastery of repartee in Parliament (as well as on the stage of Sanders...
...Sixth Fleet. This is the big stick that the U.S. carries in that troubled area while the President talks softly; it is the Middle East's steel-grey stabilizer, a powerful force of aircraft carriers and atom-armed planes, missile ships, cruisers, destroyers and a Marine amphibious unit that unobtrusively patrols-and controls-that ancient and vital waterway, the Mediterranean...
...bombing, coolheaded Jock Whitney regaled his fellow P.W.s with a running commentary-"Now they're peeling off to come in! God, it's lovely! Now the first one is leveling off!" During one of those raids he broke out of his boxcar and escaped to rejoin his unit. Only damage: a chip in the gold and amber ring he still wears, bearing the personal seal of Grandfather John...