Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a short course at Norfolk's ASW Tactical School, whizzed through studies in sound detection in New London, dropped anchor at Key West's weapons-testing center, climbed aboard every nuclear submarine in the Atlantic, visited destroyers, jawed with officers and bluejackets. Next he ordered a "cross-pollination" program, sent his aviators aboard submarines, his sub skippers into helicopters, his destroyer men into 52Fs. He put airplane pilots at the helms of submarines to help work out tactical underwater maneuvers...
...World and the New. Public flagellation as penance for sins was common in Europe until the Renaissance; in Spain the custom persisted and was carried into the New World when Spanish colonists began to settle the land that is now New Mexico and Colorado. First to cross the Rio Grande, in 1598, was the expedition of Don Juan Oñate, whereupon, according to one historian, "Don Juan went to a secluded spot where he cruelly scourged himself, mingling bitter tears with the blood that flowed from his many wounds...
...indulged himself by taking Foreign Service exams simply because "I was curious to see if I could pass them." He did-and in April 1921, he was offered a place in the U.S. consulate at Zurich. He talked it over with his bride of one month, a former Red Cross worker named Mildred Claire Taylor, and accepted. Says Murphy: "We decided to try it for a year...
...rebels held their best prisoner bag of the 21-month-long fight: one major, four captains, twelve lieutenants; they liberated almost 300 soldier prisoners through the International Red Cross. Their weapons position was improving. In the summer counterattack they took good booty-500 pieces, including five bazookas, an armored car, two flak guns...
...last week's joyous return to democracy, Colombians temporarily put aside the problems of their fertile, underdeveloped land. As their final official act, the junta members tactfully voted their own retirement from active service. In his first official act, Lleras Camargo decorated all five with the Cross of Boyacá, Colombia's highest medal...