Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Hanoi by the Communists. He wanted to see the battle for Hill 101 himself. He watched two French columns go into a counterattack. Fighting for him, on one flank, there was a detachment of Muongs, hill people from the "Country of the Killing Water," where they hunt pigs with bows & arrows. Now, armed with rifles, they were stalking a Red column. As they edged forward under Communist machine-gun fire, clouds of smoke and dust rose ahead of them as French artillery pounded the Communist positions. On the other flank, a battalion of turbaned Moroccans attacked Hill 101 chanting...
...that Princess Margaret followed a fox hunt part of the way in a comfortable station wagon. Britain's League Against Cruel Sports was aroused to an angry resolution because she appeared at all: "The Princess cannot be aware of the views which a very large number of British people hold about fox hunting ... an amusement which is regarded . . . with absolute loathing and abhorrence, by reason of its inherent cruelty to the unfortunate animal involved...
...hunt spread over Britain, the border between Scotland and England was closed for the first time in 400 years, and all northbound cars, railroad vans, ships, airplanes were searched. On a telephone tip, police dragged the Serpentine lake in London's Hyde Park. At week's end London's Sunday Chronicle reported that 8,000 policemen had been involved in the hunt. At one point, the police pursuit was costing Britain's taxpayers ?2,000 an hour. The Dean of Westminster, Dundee-born Dr. Alan Campbell Don, was distracted. Said he in a radio appeal...
Dive--won by Dillingham, 2 Manheim, 3 Hunt (P). Points...
...freestyle--won by Hedberg, 2 Huebsch, 3 Hunt (P). Time...