Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreement, giving hard-pressed Colonel Nasser a financial windfall that might ease his heavy dependence on Moscow, was perhaps one result of the Communist offensive against Nasser in Syria and Iraq that the Russians may not have expected. Nasser has belatedly begun to move against the Communists. He has arrested several hundred of them in Syria and Egypt, including some Egyptian newsmen, though this news has significantly not appeared in the Egyptian press...
Next came news from Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. that Colonel Franklin R. Sibert, commander of the 2nd Training Regiment and an Episcopalian, had lent his personal weight to a St. Maurice campaign. A large painting of the saint was hung at headquarters, drawings of St. Maurice were displayed throughout the post, the officers' club was named St. Maurice Club, the gym was named after him, and wooden scrolls appeared on the barracks walls bearing the inscription: "We live, fight and die for God, country and St. Maurice...
...buying the News, newly confident Marshall Field Jr. has succeeded in doing what his father, who established the Sun in 1941. was never able to do: set himself up to give the Tribune a real run for its money. As if in testament of this, Maryland McCormick, the colonel's widow, wired Field: "You have now succeeded the colonel as first publisher of Chicago...
...brusquely repulsed. On a flight to Algiers a few weeks ago, mercurial Léon Delbecque, one of the organizers of the insurrection that led to De Gaulle's return to power, plumped himself down in the seat opposite the general. Hastily, De Gaulle summoned his trusted military aide Colonel Gaston de Bonneval for a whispered conversation. When De Bonneval defensively?and audibly?remarked, "But, mon general, I didn't ask him to sit there," Delbecque ignominiously retreated...
...after Nasser's speech, Damascus' Communist newspaper Al Noor went out of business. Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash, the leading Communist in the Arab world, went underground. Nasser's Syrian proconsul, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, was more emphatic than Nasser. "The Communist Party has shown its real self," he said. "Its attitude is treason to the Arab cause and a dagger's stab directed by people who do not represent the real face of the Syrian region...