Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Star of the evening was Baritone Warren. He had a few bad moments when the audience first glimpsed his toadstool-shaped black armor and snickered. But he came through, as always, with sane, reliable singing in a beautiful voice. Bronx-born Baritone Warren spent a year and a half learning his part, and if he seemed just a bit boring as Charles V, it was probably because he understood the boring role so well...
Instead next morning allied planes and ships began to soften up Port Said for a seaborne landing. When the bombardment ended, commandos, more paratroopers and armor began to pour ashore. (One Royal Marine Commando, 500 strong, made the trip from ship to shore by helicopter, thereby scoring a first in the history of amphibious warfare.) Some headed down the canal, got within 20 miles of Ismailia before the cease-fire took effect. Others, supported by tanks, probed through the streets of Port Said slowly cleaning out stubbornly resisting remnants of the Egyptian army and the irregulars of Nasser...
...first night of operations," Ben-Gurion told the Knesset, "we took Kuntilla after twenty minutes of resistance, Ras el Naqb near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command car from hotspot to hotspot, promptly took charge. "Our infantry was inching along taking casualties under heavy artillery fire," he said later. "About 1 p.m. I told the commander...
Fourth Day. When dawn broke over the tank battlefield of Abu Aweigila, the Israels discovered that in the darkness the Egyptians had pulled out what was left of their armor, to scurry to safety west of the Suez. A considerable remnant got away, but the Egyptians' one big punch had failed...
Four days later events gave terrible point to his words. It was the Russians who "stood up in action," sweeping intc Hungary with the full, brutal weight oi their armor. The cardinal took refuge in the U.S. embassy while the battle raged outside...