Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urgent favor to ask of Nasser: that he ask the Syrians not to blow up Tapline, the pipeline that carries a third of Aramco's production through Arabia and Syria to the Mediterranean. Reportedly, Nasser obliged -by making a telephone call to Syria's Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj who agreed. Iraq's Nuri es Said, who waited too long before demonstrating his support of Nasser, saw his pipelines blown up by the Syrian army...
...taken at the same time." As a result, Painter Charles Willson Peale was summoned from Annapolis in May 1772 to paint the hero of the French and Indian War, his wife and stepchildren. Peale's portrait of the 40-year-old Virginia planter in his uniform as a colonel in the Virginia militia, today hanging at Washington and Lee University, has become part of the national heritage...
...occasionally broke formation and glided unobtrusively into a suite of neat, quiet rooms. Their object: a thorough hangar check for heart disease. Since 1950, more than 50 middle-aged Air Force executives-from the Secretary down-have undergone regular scrutiny by a team of Air Force specialists under Colonel Marshall E. Groover. The medicos can point to a fair record for the group: only 19 heart attacks, including six deaths (among men who did not follow recommendations). But the Air Force program may prove most important for significant findings about the functions of diet and stress in heart disease...
...stress, but just how stress does its damage has always been a mystery. With the discovery of large amounts of cholesterol in the blood of heart victims, many doctors switched the blame from stress to diet, since some fats are known to raise the blood's cholesterol level. Colonel Groover's findings interrelate both stress and diet...
Among Groover's case histories was the story of Colonel M.B., who worked for an unreasonable, hostile boss. His cholesterol level was high, but diet and exercise failed to help. When the boss was taken to the hospital (with cerebral arteriosclerosis), Colonel M.B.'s cholesterol level showed a remarkable drop. Brigadier General F.R.'s cholesterol level was normal when he was assigned to Washington, but it shot up when he took over a demanding job in which he constantly had to meet deadlines; a change of duty brought him down to normal...