Word: armored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain, Armor, U.S.A...
Please allow me to correct a statement made in the May 18 issue of your widely read magazine. I am not commanding the 140th Tank Battalion, only Company A of the 140th Tank Battalion. The battalion commander is Colonel William Fondren, Armor, U.S. Army...
...Athens one hot morning last week, Greece's King Paul and 60 military men gathered to watch an ordnance test. At a signal from a dark-eyed, black-haired man in a black suit, a 3.5-in. bazooka was fired five times at a sheet of 8-in. armor. It punched five gaping holes in it. When the test ended, a U.S. Army colonel stepped up to the man in the black suit, Bodossakis Athanassiades, and formally approved $17 million in offshore-procurement contracts for him to make bazooka rockets for NATO...
...Eugene Pallette successfully blusters through the role of Joe Martin, grocery-store magnate and the girl's father, interested only in the grossest of profit and spectacle. He transports gloomy Glourie Castle to sunny Florida, outfitting it with radios in suits of armor and Venetian gondolas "to give that European look" to the moat--the ultimate in unintentional incongruity. Pallette makes the most of the only part which requires genuine interpretation...
...provoked so many chuckles by stating good sense in metrical nonsense that many readers have never paused to appraise the discipline, economy and pungency of the Nash poem at its best. One of the best in this collection is The Visit. Here, in two dozen lines, is the whole armor of Ogden Nash-the sardonic side glance, the aptly distorted word, the poised cold shoulder, the burial of victims in clichés of their own choosing...