Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read from a prepared statement. A plain, almost schoolmasterish figure in spite of his crisp summer tans and combat ribbons, Omar Bradley, topflight battlefield general (in Europe he commanded more combat troops than any military man in U.S. history), was Witness No. 3 in the MacArthur hearing...
Army Chaplain Rudolf Albert Renfer had just finished a Sunday battlefield sermon somewhere in Germany when shrapnel from enemy artillery put him out of World War II. Two years ago, Presbyterian Renfer became professor of church history and missions at nondenominational, fundamentalist Dallas Theological Seminary. But when the Korean war broke out, he began worrying about the chaplaincy again -a branch of the ministry that looked as though it would be around for a long time...
...much like the plains of northern France, where he won his first fame as a combat commander; it is more like mountainous Greece, where as U.S. "adviser" to the Greek army he licked the Red guerrillas. But it is like both in that it is a hard-fought battlefield; and that, as the Army discovered rather late in Van Fleet's career, is the kind of place where he can make the most of an extraordinary talent as a troop commander...
...assignment, after commanding the 1st Marine Division with distinction for seven bloody and glorious months in Korea (TIME, Sept. 25). The 1st's new boss was another fighter of the same "old breed": Major General Gerald C. Thomas, 56, who enlisted in the Corps in 1917, won a battlefield commission during World...
...Tory battler, Winston Churchill, was watching fierce-eyed for a chance to hit the Labor government with a knockout blow. He canceled a scheduled address at the University of Pennsylvania this week because he did not want to leave the battlefield at a crucial moment. In London, before the Primrose League (a Conservative Party offshoot which sponsors social and welfare activities), Churchill last week turned his old phrasemaking genius on Attlee & Co. Most striking Churchillisms: "Mr. Attlee [leads] that cluster of lionhearted limpets, a new phenomenon in our natural history . . . who are united by their desire to hold...