Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words of General MacArthur, a peaceful lake. The Pacific actually became a U.S. responsibility when Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 opened the Pandora's box of Japan; the U.S. began to recognize its responsibility when it took the Philippines from Spain in 1898, helped to quell the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, helped to settle the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. In World War II, it cost the U.S. a painful, bloody, island-to-island struggle to make the Pacific a peaceful lake. The U.S. never intends to be forced to fight that kind of war again...
...Camillo, with no doubts, has had a vast advantage all along: the benefit of Christ's spoken advice from the crucifix in Don Camillo's own church. Christ argues with him, humors him, acts as his conscience. Once, after the priest has knocked out a swaggering boxer, Christ bids him good night with "Sleep well, champ." Later, when Don Camillo grouses about the weight of the church cross he must carry in a parade, the Lord smiles and exclaims: "You're telling...
Died. The Rev. Francis Dunlap Gamewell, 92, Methodist missionary in China from 1881 to 1930, a hero of the Boxer Rebellion; in Clifton Spring, N.Y. He was a professor of chemistry at Peking University when Chinese troops laid siege to the city. Appointed "chief of staff" of the British, U.S. and Chinese civilian defenders, he fortified his mission, stood off attackers for 56 days until an allied army lifted the siege...
...each of the state's 488,000 qualified Democratic voters, McMath mailed a gaudy, eight-page comic book relating the saga of 38-year-old Sid McMath. There was McMath the poor boy, born in a dogtrot cabin on an Arkansas farm; McMath the amateur boxer, and honor student at the state university; Major McMath the Marine Corps hero, with the Silver Star for bravery on Bougainville; McMath the racket-busting prosecutor who cleaned up gambling in Hot Springs; McMath the family loving governor...
...Agreement. At home, there was equal confusion. The Army still listed transport sailings, the Navy banned such information; both services were talking about the same ships. After asking newspapers not to use pictures of FSI Mustangs being loaded on the carrier Boxer, the Navy then released the pictures. An Air Force officer barred interviews with passengers arriving in the U.S. from overseas, then was overruled...