Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Loughlin, who calls himself a "bird colonel foot soldier," joined the 81st (Wildcat) Infantry Division in 1917, saw action a few weeks before the Armistice. He was retired. because of age (60) in 1942, later recalled to command a P.W. camp in Jackson, Miss, until he retired for good...
...hard-working committee, quietly stitched away on the assignment for three months, then resigned because "the emergency phase" of Hungarian resettlement had ended. By last week it was clear how well Voorhees &.Co. had done their job: of the 29,000 Hungarians received at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer, 27,700 have been processed and sent, under sponsorship of voluntary civic and religious agencies, to their new lives in places ranging from New York City (with 1,824 resettled refugees) to San Marino, Calif, (with...
...their battle dress. But for the Cuban government and for the U.S., which is officially friendly to Batista, it was an embarrassing affair. U.S. officials, with full cooperation from the Cuban army and police, planned to try to send an appeal from the boys' parents into the rebel camp. If that fails, U.S. emissaries may go in under a truce flag and try to talk the young volunteers into coming...
...shocker that leaves Humbert a chastened European innocent is that Lolita seduces him. For she is an experienced hoyden who has already been ravished at a fashionable summer camp. In the second volume the sexual farce is more corrosive and the human comedy less exuberant. The couple embark on a kind of illicit grand tour of the 48 states; the settings-hotels, motels and tourist traps-have the infernal cast of a Hieronymus Bosch painting...
...than those things with which you were concerned, includes Bunker's graduation from Harvard Magna Cum Laude; his election to Phi Beta Kappa; his attending Trinity College, Cambridge, on a Rhodes Scholarship; and the many military honors bestowed upon him both before and after his service as Aide-de-Camp to General MacArthur, including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. These things, plus the fact that he has attained great success and recognition as a lawyer, as a businessman, as a military leader, as a public servant and as a scholar, eminently qualify Col. Laurence E. Bunker...