Word: flag
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tumble out of bed muttering in French, German, all the languages of Europe. Down in the dark valley across the shallow, gravelly Song Kalong River, dividing line between Indo-China and Red China, there is also a stirring. Guards in new olive-green uniforms are running up a red flag with one big white star in the corner and four small stars. They are Chinese Communist soldiers, three battalions of them in the little town of Tonghing...
...their side of the border the French run up their flag. Then a Legionnaire unlocks an iron-barred gate which at night closes one end of the narrow steel bridge over the Song Kalong. The bridge is Indo-China's last link with China. Northward the whole frontier lies wide open...
...Twenty-four men, including me, decided to go. We ran through the enemy lines and into the river, and didn't lose a man. Before I waded the river I saw our men getting a white flag ready and heard the captain yell to the gooks to come in-he was surrendering. The gooks went in firing pointblank. The captain shouted louder, 'I want to surrender my men!' and I could hear our men screaming as they were shot. Then it was all quiet...
Massachusetts, undefeated this season, took the National League flag by crushing Hollis, 19 to 0. Straus suffered a double loss, to Matthews South, 21 to 0, and to Hollis by Forfeit, 1 to 0, when Straus lost a player after its first game with Matthews...
...Other Details . . ." International News Service's Robert G. Nixon was the first to flag his office. But I.N.S., working on a telephone tip, had already put out a bulletin at 2:24 p.m. and scored the kind of beat over its wire-service rivals that press-association men love to boast about. Text of the bulletin: "Police reported that one of their officers has been shot in front of the Blair House, official residence of President Truman. No other details were immediately available...