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...atmosphere that results in this?" He had hardly finished speaking when violence broke out again, this time in the pleasant little town of Kalka, among the mountain foothills of Simla. There, police, frightened and outnumbered by an attacking mob of 1,500 people armed with stones and bottles, fired point-blank into the crowd. The toll: five dead, a score critically injured...
...that last period Captain and goalie Charlie Flynn made 12 of his 33 saves, several of them on shots from point-blank range. His fine performance was as important to the victory as the Crimson's three late goals, because it broke the Tiger spirit...
Brown was impressive with its hustle and hard backchecking, qualities that have been missing in the past few Bruin sextet's, and with Batchelder's solid goaltending, especially when he made fine saves off Dan Ullyot and Albie Wells from point-blank range. He had 29 stops to Charlie Flynn...
...column forded the icy River Jordan and advanced by land up the coast. At the zero hour, a Syrian sentry cried out: "Min hada (Who is there)?" And the night answered with fire. The Israelis fell upon the 200 men in the strongpoints with grenades and Tommy guns at point-blank range...
...Carrières Centrales, a warren of packing-case tenements, the Arabs built barricades. Young men shot stones at the waiting troops from slingshots; others ripped open their shirts and dared the Legionnaires to fire. Sometimes the soldiers did fire, at first high in the air, then point-blank to kill. "I brought down three myself," said a French sergeant with a Tommy...