Word: battalion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...substantial battalion of devotees, Clive Staples Lewis -- the Christian apologist, children's fabulist and Oxbridge don who died in 1963 -- was a contemporary saint. His latest biographer notes with some bemusement that there is a kind of shrine to his memory at Illinois' evangelical Wheaton College: one of his old tankards is enclosed there in glass, like a relic. But difficulties face those who would canonize the author of Mere Christianity and the Narnia chronicles. A.N. Wilson, a British writer who has previously taken sensitive measure of Milton, Tolstoy and Hilaire Belloc, portrays Lewis as a blustery, hard-drinking eccentric...
...that Peggy Noonan did not write it. For if words are the weapons of politics, then Noonan -- whether nervously chain-smoking at her computer in Ronald Reagan's White House or minding her baby son at home as she created the "kinder, gentler" persona for George Bush -- commanded a battalion...
TASK FORCE PACIFIC. Once Task Force Red had secured the airport, two waves of 82nd Airborne paratroopers jumped from 20 C-141 transports. They fanned out to assist Rangers and Special Forces units that had blocked the Pacora River bridge to prevent Battalion 2000 from reaching Panama City and to turn back any attack from P.D.F. infantry and cavalry units based at Fort Cimarron. When the Americans reached the fort, the crack battalion was no longer there...
TASK FORCE BAYONET. This mechanized battalion and light tank force attacked the P.D.F. headquarters with a vengeance, igniting a huge fire that gutted the main Comandancia building. When the bombardment was over, its troops searched the building room by room -- and found no one. By 8 a.m. Wednesday, Powell felt confident enough to proclaim that "for the most part, organized resistance has ended...
Though some of his fellow soldiers say he single-handedly saved his battalion by killing 600 Japanese soldiers during a 21-hour siege on New Guinea in 1942, Sergeant David Rubitsky was never awarded the Medal of Honor. Jewish groups and veterans' organizations claim that anti-Semitism was the reason. Last week, after a two-year inquiry, an Army review board ruled that Rubitsky was not entitled to the medal. Lieut. Colonel Terrence Adkins, who led the inquiry, said Rubitsky's exploits "did not occur as alleged." An investigator described as "fraudulent" a photo with Japanese inscriptions declaring that...