Word: units
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, Tshombe's dispirited army regulars panicked at almost every confrontation. The powerful army unit ordered by Tshombe to drive the rebels out of Stanleyville poised menacingly just across the Congo River from the city, then turned and beat one of the fastest retreats in history - 560 miles to the rear in one day. At another major town, when a freak lightning bolt blew up an army powder magazine, the terrified garrison, convinced it was surrounded, fired back - in every direction...
...Walter Cronkite and film stars Dana Wynter, Ed Begley and Bradford Dillman. Most volunteers are college-educated housewives, who usually read general histories and biographies. When a request comes in from a blind student (each needs about eight books a year), it is relayed from Manhattan to the field unit best staffed to read the subject intelligently. For that reason all but one unit-Oak Ridge, Tenn.-are located near a university with a good library and a big pool of specialists...
...favorite targets on the Opposition benches. Ramsay MacDonald was "the boneless wonder," Clement Attlee was "a sheep in sheep's clothing." When the postwar Labor government began measuring its home-building program in terms of "accommodation units," Churchill sang mockingly: "Accommodation unit, sweet accommodation unit, there's no place like accommodation unit...
Jammed into Freebody Park, 15,000 of the faithful hummed, strummed and tapped sneakers as a single unit, outfitted not only with identical uniforms but with a mutual set of convictions that decry the injustices of war, segregation and cheating hearts. One by one, the cult's high priests (Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Odetta) filled the cloudy sky with music. And none did it with more urgency or passion than the slight blonde girl in the pink dress who hoisted a guitar twice her size and greeted the first drops of rain with a voice that...
...DETERRENT. De Gaulle was happy to bring the world up to date on the state of France's fledgling atomic air force: "The first unit will be operational this year. In 1966 we will have sufficient Mirage IV planes and refueling aircraft to be able to transport over several thousand kilometers projectiles whose total explosive power is greater than 150 Hiroshima bombs." He did not add that all this would be impossible without airborne refueling tankers that are to be supplied by the U.S., nor that, as an air force staff colonel disclosed last week, the primitive French bomb...