Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he seems to be losing the battle to rule the Arab world, Egypt's Colonel Nasser last week won control of what is now undeniably his, the Suez Canal...
...sibilant, bespectacled Lord Salisbury, who until he resigned from the government over Cyprus (TIME, April 8) was one of Macmillan's closest associates, bitingly called for a House of Lords debate on the Prime Minister's statement. Said Salisbury: "It goes far too near complete capitulation to Colonel Nasser than many of us would have felt bearable, or I was almost going to say, endurable...
...Harvard in 1916, went to Yale in 1927 after serving as curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art and lecturing at Western Reserve. An imposing man with a massive mustache, he soon made his mark in New Haven. His particular hero was the Revolutionary painter John Trumbull, and, like Colonel Trumbull, he seemed to come straight out of the 18th century. In those days, Sizer once said, "things were done in real style." In his own way he tried to keep that style alive. Few sights were more impressive than that of Theodore Sizer marching majestically across the campus with...
Some of the liveliest Gettysburgiana was turned up by city editors' efforts to find a local angle. Miami Herald reporters managed to extract opinions from a Robert E. Lee. a Colonel Guilford R. Montgomery, a Jack Mead and a Mrs. A. J. Eisenhower. Historian (Lincoln Finds a General) Kenneth P. Williams was traced to Bloomington. Ind. by the Atlanta Constitution, and allowed that "it would have been rather unjust to replace Lee for that one battle." Mrs. Robert E. Lee III, identified as "the widow of the Generals grandson," confided to the Washington Post and Times Herald that...
...plausible but otherwise unsubstantiated explanation advanced by Confederate Colonel W. W. Blackford in his vividly reported diary, War Years with Jeb Stuart...