Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered World War II, became one of the Air Corps's youngest brigadier generals at 36. Because he looked even younger than he was, he had to learn to endure gibes about his age: once while in Tunisia, in mufti, he was ordered by a chicken colonel to hustle up a drink, complied gracefully...
...bands. Decoy patrols are sent out into the hills to act as moving targets, inviting attack. Supporting them are teams of helicopters scattered in impromptu bases. When an attack comes, the patrol radios to the base. In a typical grenouillage operation last week, a call came in to Lieut. Colonel Marcel Bigeard, established in a burned-out farmhouse south of Bone. Within minutes, Bigeard had seven helicopters loaded up; he took off, returned with 15 captured rebels, three mortars and 60 rifles...
...Graham and Meyer thought they had the solution: a chance to buy the gaudy but prosperous opposition, the Times-Herald, a year after Publisher Cissy Patterson's death. Instead, Cissy's seven heirs sold out to her cousin, Colonel Bertie McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. Graham saw no hope of competing from the Post's ramshackle old plant. So Meyer put up another $6,000,000 to build a new Post building (on L Street), complete with color presses and air conditioning...
Guards Lieut. Colonel Harold Phillips and his wife Georgina, a childhood playmate of Elizabeth...
...will get you, even in your bed." Thus the Greek Cypriot underground, in a mimeographed leaflet signed "The Leader Digenis," gave Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Harding its warning several weeks ago. Last week at a luncheon at Nicosia's Government House, an intelligence colonel told Sir John flatly that the underground was plotting his early assassination. Scoffed short, peppery Soldier Harding: "If they do attempt it, they will have to deal with my army, and that is no trifling matter...