Word: aemilius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soldier Douglas MacArthur and former staff officers celebrated his 72nd birthday with a stag party. He admitted to a reporter that his former Commander in Chief Harry Truman had failed to note the day with a greeting, added that one of his favorite fighting men was still Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the Roman consul sent to fight the Macedonians in 168 B.C., who turned on his critics and told them either to come to Macedonia and fight with him or stay home and be quiet. Said Mac Arthur: "If I chance to meet Lucius Aemilius Paulus in the hereafter, I will...