Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1933, switched in 1937 to the Associated Press in New York, later reported for A.P. in Switzerland and London. He joined the Times staff in 1944, went into Belgium and Germany with the First Army. Now on home leave from Bonn, Cliff Daniel is boning up on Russian history and language before taking over his next...
...Cliff Gates, an athletic Tennessean with cool blue eyes, was taking his bar exam in 1917 when favorable word came on his application for a Marine Corps commission; he walked out of the exam hall and never went back. In France his company of the 6th Marines suffered more casualties than any other American outfit (131 men killed, 491 wounded). He was wounded seven times. It was, he said dryly, "a life of hardship and hazard," but he wanted no other. He liked the work: fighting...
...Marine "propaganda machine"; Gates took Truman's autographed picture down from his wall, and thousands of ex-marines leaped to the defense of the corps. Soon afterwards the President formally apologized to Gates, and the Marines' survival was assured. His Commandant's term at an end, Cliff Gates served out his time as chief of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico, Va. This week old (60) Leatherneck Gates, D.S.C., Navy Cross, D.S.M., Legion of Merit, Silver Star, was retired with a 17-gun salute and an elaborate ceremony. "Tripe," hard-boiled Cliff Gates called it, blinking down...
...Cliff Davis of Tennessee...
Silver medals will go to alternates cliff F. Thompson '56 of Fairway, Kanasa, and Richard M. Stenson '56 of Sioux Falls...