Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stir than the R.C.A.F.'s similar decision (TIME, Oct. 6). Some critics of the new policy complained that Canada is becoming too dependent on the U.S. for military muscle. But there was really no alternative; the U.S. has what Canada need's. Said a Canadian colonel: "Canada will have an army again...
...Lieut. Colonel G. W. Meates was attracted to the Darent River site by an old report that workmen digging postholes more than 200 years ago found a mosaic floor. Moving in with a crew of diggers, he quickly proved that the 18th century fence builders had really stumbled on something. Little by little he uncovered the lower parts of a magnificent villa that was probably inhabited for 300 years. Beside mosaic flooring, it had sculpture of imported Greek marble, a fine painting of water nymphs, and a heated bath...
...Colonel. Danny Kaye, in one of his funniest films, as a Polish refugee stranded in Paris while the Wehrmacht approaches in 1940 (TIME, Sept...
...Colonel escapes censure for bad taste by taking attention away from the common plight of the two central characters, shifting it to their conflicting philosophies. "In life, there are always two possibilities," asserts Jacobowsky, to which the Colonel replies, "There is only one--to die with honor...
...heartening to know that the movie world can still adapt a play without abandoning its more serious and "difficult" aspects. Me and the Colonel is a very fine example...