Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experience, worked as a copilot for Northwest Airlines on the Seattle-Billings run, served as aide in Panama to Brigadier General George H. Brett, and courted and won the general's 20-year-old blonde daughter Dora. On inactive duty one year, Ben ran a CCC camp of 200 truculent boys near Lordsburg, N. Mex. "I learned a lot about command that year," he said. "I learned never to put out a rule that is unenforceable. I learned that it's important to get the staff on my side, and if you earned their loyalty, they were...
More than all the heaped bones in all the charnel camps of Hitler's Germany, such uncomplicated words as these from the diary of a sensitive little Jewish girl named Anne Frank are making many Germans conscious of the enormity of the crimes they once condoned. Her poignant, posthumously published and dramatized diary became a hit play in scores of German cities as well as in the U.S. She herself, dead at 15, lies buried in a mass grave at Belsen, 50 miles south of Hamburg, where some 25,000 of her fellow Jews died in the last...
...from 6 to 11 years of ready reserve depending upon the program chosen. The ready reserve involves weekly two-hour drill sessions forty-eight times during the year (actually this can be lowered to a minimum of 42 times a year) and two weeks each summer at a training camp...
Next day, as Nasser's "Voice of the Arabs" broadcast "Arab Victory!" to the refugee camp and café radios of the Middle East, his general rattled into Gaza with a task force of 72 (including 50 MPs, ten army officers). Sending a liaison officer round to notify General Burns that he would be wanting the police station for his own headquarters, Latif rushed off to press $288 into the hands of Moushref's refugee father. "You all know where the UNEF is going to be," he told reporters, with a wave of his hand toward the Israeli...
...only one to make a killing on the deal. The claims had been discovered in 1953 by a La Sal, Utah ranch foreman named Zeke Johnson, whose son Jimmy was one of Steen's first miners. Steen, short of cash, had asked Jimmy Johnson to find a camp cook, and Jimmy talked his mother into taking on the job. In return, Steen gratefully told the Johnsons to look over some promising rock formations ten miles north of Mi Vida. Zeke Johnson did, and staked out his claims. They were so promising that Cord and his friends paid Johnson...