Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cadet injuries and blunders, there seemed little doubt that Dartmouth could have won under any circumstances. This opinion was certainly shared by an undergraduate announcer of the Dartmouth Broadcasting System, who chattered ecstatically throughout the game to his Hanover audience about the prodigious feats of Miller, McDonald, and Collins...
Back at West Point for the first visit in 14 years, former Superintendent Douglas MacArthur, in well-tailored mufti, glowed with fatherly pride as young Arthur was presented with a cadet's dress cap. After the ceremony, they watched a sadly depleted Army team lose its first game of the season to Villanova...
...hopeful note in the Crimson's future was Army's 21 to 7 defeat at the hands of Villanova. The remolded Cadet eleven was far too inexperienced to match the Wildcats' fast play...
...Cadet James Reid Brazell, 17, said, "Thanks to TIME, I won all the arguments I got into." Others said: "TIME certainly did a job on bureaucracy. That story about slippery floors in the Pentagon was a lulu." "Congress didn't get anything important done-a do-nothing Congress." "That Red youth rally in Berlin-those people were really hopped...
Behind the charges lay a complex story of bureaucratic intrigue and counter-intrigue-the kind of factional squabbling that has been one of the Nationalists' gravest weaknesses. A Whampoa cadet sent by Chiang Kai-shek to study aviation in Moscow in 1927 (before the Nationalists and Communists split), Mao set up his country's first military air academy at Hangchow in 1932, helped Chennault build up the Flying Tigers during the Japanese war, served in the postwar period as chief representative of the Chinese air force abroad. But Mao's pet ambition was thwarted when Chiang made...