Word: sacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Kong, Moslem resistance has flickered across Sinkiang. In the Altai mountains, tribesmen fought Red troops for two months. From Kara Kash came word of a 23-year-old Moslem woman called Pashakhan, who, waving a star-and-crescent flag, led a crowd from a mosque to sack the local police station and to fight on with captured weapons for two weeks before being taken and shot...
...cavity of the abdomen . . . The tumor then appeared full in view, but was so large that we could not take it away entire . . . We cut open the tumor [and] took out fifteen pounds of a dirty, gelatinous substance. After which we cut through the Fallopian tube, and extracted the sack, which weighed seven pounds and a half . . . The operation was completed in about 25 minutes. We then turned her upon her left side, so as to permit the blood to escape; after which we closed the external opening. In five days I visited her, and much to my astonishment found...
...Milan recently, the strong Communist element there attacked it as an imperialist plot, until they discovered that workers were swamping the store at the rate of 23,000 customers a week. As one Milan supermarket manager says, comparing a neat package of sugar with the fly-flecked open sack from which old-fashioned grocers dispense their sugar: "Let's let the customer decide...
...close relative. With rare exceptions there is no teen-age dating, there are no mixed parties, and the sexes are segregated through grade and high school. But at Karachi University, nearly 5,000 of the 16,000 students are girls-emancipated girls who no longer hide beneath the traditional sack-like burka that shrouds devout Moslem women from head...
...earnings of Welterweight Don Jordan shortly before he became champion in December. Leonard said that Palermo's demands were later backed up by Carbo himself, added that he began getting phone calls threatening bodily harm ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack"). But Manager Don Nesseth, 33, had flatly refused to knuckle under, and, according to the indictment, Leonard had handed over only $1,725. After the hearings, Leonard landed in a hospital, claimed that he had been bludgeoned while closing his garage door. While Carbo and Palermo were applying threats, charged the indictment...