Word: armored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hedgehogs NATO planners mean mobile defense units which would be free to dig in almost anywhere, surrounded by their own armor and infantry perimeters and by minefields. Aim of the hedgehogs is to break the enemy mass and to direct it into channels. The defenders would counterattack with atomic weapons, harry the canalized enemy laterally from the hedgehogs, blast him from...
Otherwise you will take sixteen weeks of basic probably in infantry (Fort Dix, N.J. or Fort Jackson, S.C.), Armor (Fort Knox, Ky, or Fort Hood, Tex.), or Field Artillery (Fort Dix. N.J. or Fort Sill, Okla.). The choice is made by officers whom you will never see and on the basis of mere caprice, so there is no way of influencing your branch of service...
...presented with such excellency the spirit of the Finnish people and the obstacles they have had to surmount because they live under the shadow of the historical Russian bully . . . What all of us, from the Thuringian Forest to Sheboygan, must realize is that to survive we need, along with armor, A-bombs and valuta, sisu...
...dealing merely with the pooling of coal and steel," he observed last week. "We are creating a new political reality." No man is better qualified to do the job of creating, for the "Little Howitzer," as his friends call him, has the driving power of an armor-piercing shell. When he gets hold of an idea, he never lets go. "If he were put under an anesthetic," said a friend last week, "he would still keep repeating 'We've got to create Europe' as they wheeled him into the operating room...
Staged in authentic British locales by Director Richard Thorpe, Ivanhoe is at its best in its spectacular action sequences: Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), resplendent in black armor on a black charger, splintering lances with five Norman knights in the lists at Ashby; Ivanhoe championing the persecuted Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) against Norman Templar de Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) in a savage battle with hand ax and mace & chain to the neighing of horses and the funereal beating of drums; the flaming assault on Torquilstone castle, where Rowena (Joan Fontaine) is held captive by the sneering Sir Hugh de Bracy (Robert Douglas), with...