Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corder, 20, aviation electrician's mate, spotted two red-starred MIGs, already boring down in a gunnery run on the Mercator. Their guns began to spit bullets. "They're firing at us," he shouted into the intercom. Lieut. Commander Donald Mayer, 35, barked a fireback order. But cross-conversation blocked the intercom, and the command came too late. Communist armor-piercing bullets ripped up the Mercator's two 20-mm. tail guns, riddled Corder with 40 shrapnel wounds, set his flight suit ablaze...
...Sterling Area One Dollar Dominion One Sun That Never Sets One Maltese Cross One Marylebone Cricket Club One Trans-Antarctic Expedition And a Mother Country Up a Gum Tree...
...Will Never Leave. For four 18-hour days, at walled village after village, he went through the same routine-the greeting of the pipers, the investiture of new mayors and councilmen, the decorating of soldiers and civilians with everything from the Mėdaille Militaire to the Sanitation Cross with Palms. But wherever he was-the marketplaces, at a feast of whole roast sheep, or in private audience-he knew that those to whom he spoke may well have served with the Algerian rebels...
...trousers and a hooded sweatshirt with a large cross hanging from his neck, Pastor Delattre is a busy man-serving his bread and wine, bailing his flock out of jail, counseling pregnant girls, speaking to church groups, being pointed out to tourists (the mission is a regular stop for sightseeing buses). He never brings up the subject of religion. "If they ask, I reply. And, believe me, many people preach to me, and I've been transformed. Church people often ask me: 'Have things been successful? How many have become Christians? Is this worth the investment?' When...
General Alfred M. Gruenther (ret.). logistician, president, American Red .....................................................................................................Cross L.H.D...