Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is Military Sciences 1b," the Colonel began. ROTC members had filed in with amazing regularity for a 9 0 clock class. "Promptness is the courtesy of kings," the colonel said. "I guess I'll have to get up ten minuets earlier," the Cliffie thought. The walk from the Radcliffe dorms to Shannon Hall is a long...
When the Iraqi army killed King Feisal and seized power last July, General Karim Kassem threw his arms around his top lieutenant, Colonel Abdul Salem Mohammed Aref, and called him "my brother in revolt." Others, presumably including Aref himself, decided that the hot-eyed Aref might one day play Nasser to Kassem's Naguib. Last week a prosecutor at one of Baghdad's show trials revealed, almost in passing, that Aref has already been tried and convicted of treason...
Behrman's 1940 play, Jacobowsky and the Colonel, written in conjunction with the Austrian Franz Werfel, was recently made into the successful motion picture, Me and the Colonel, starring Danny Kaye and Curt Jurgens...
BARNEY OLDFIELD-Colonel, U.S.A.F...
Back in Mexico City, Castro, called on Spanish Colonel Alberto Bayo, onetime fighter against Franco. Said Castro: "You know all about guerrillas. You will teach us." Bayo sold his furniture factory, rented a big hacienda in the shadow of the volcano Popocatepetl, and taught hit-and-run warfare to 80-odd irregulars assembled by Castro...