Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silence. Adenauer's charge of Russian atrocities, he said, was "offensive." He was visibly as agitated as Adenauer had been. "The Russian soldiers fulfilled their sacred duties for their people," he said. "If many Germans perished, far more Russians perished. After all, who is responsible? We did not cross any frontiers. We did not start...
Next day the Prime Minister arrived at the field training headquarters of the 3rd British Infantry Division. Eden, who won the Military Cross for gallantry in World War I, clambered in and out of armored vehicles, crawled into underground field defenses built to withstand the blast and radiation of atomic bombs dropped 500 yards away. "Pretty ancient aren't they, sir?" said a youthful sergeant when the Prime Minister inspected his living quarters. "They're awful," said Eden. "Accommodations must be improved...
...Bronze Star. In his second operation, bloody Peleliu, he won the Legion of Merit for the smooth landing of three Marine assault teams. From Peleliu to Okinawa and from Inchon to Changjin reservoir, he won many honors (including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Army's Distinguished Service Cross) and advanced rapidly in the esteem of the corps...
...approaching the far turn, Jockey Shoemaker tried to move up on the outside; each time Arcaro whacked his mount and pulled away, holding the inside track. Coming down the long (1,531 ft.) homestretch, Shoemaker finally used the whip, but Swaps had no more to give. Arcaro, furiously cross-whipping, drove Nashua across the finish line, ahead by a good 6½ lengths...
Bassoon-playing gave him the lungs of a cross-country runner, and later, at Baylor University, he made the track team. In those days Paul was an English major. He lived on 50? a day-his parents could not afford to send him more. Summers he peddled Wear-Ever cooking utensils in north Texas towns...