Word: geronimos
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...year collected $52,422.23 in speeding fines and forfeitures. When the anguished cries of Highway 27's motorists brought on a Dade County grand jury investigation and forced him out of office as police chief, Grimsley had a worthy successor. In twelve months new Chief William C. Geronimo and the Hialeah Gardens whistle-blowers racked...
...French army jeep squealed to a halt as a sullen young Arab planted himself in the middle of the casbah street and refused to budge. A French private named Geronimo leaped from the jeep, and unlimbering his Tommy gun, faced the Moslem troublemaker. From the sidelines an old Arab shuffled forward and tried to soothe his compatriot: "Go home. Come on, don't be mulish.'' Before the old Arab had finished his plea, Private Geronimo's Tommy gun stuttered in reply, and the old man "collapsed softly, muttering to himself unintelligibly while his blood flowed down...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) James A. Ryan, 88; in St. Petersburg, Fla. One of the Army's last Indian fighters, General Ryan spent three years in Arizona tracking Geronimo, was an intelligence officer in the Mexican border war under General Pershing, in a tour of duty as modern-language instructor at West Point had among his students Dwight Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley...
...some fascinating, some obvious. Cowboys sometimes found it difficult to get about 3,000 cows to swim a river. Steak was cheap (5? a pound). The Colt six-gun was invented by Samuel Colt. Bullwhackers had deplorable vocabularies. All this may be interesting. But a thought, as troublesome as Geronimo, persists in the reader's mind that the cowboy is perhaps best left as myth. William MacLeod Raine and Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford (whom the authors call a "second-rate practitioner"), or even Zane Grey, that old rider of the purple page, may be -better custodians...
Apache (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists) claims to follow in the bootsteps of High Noon and Shane, but it trips along the way. It stars Burt Lancaster in a fairly closeup view of the Indian brave, Massai, who refused to join Geronimo in a peace contract with the U.S. Army. The old chief and his warriors are shipped off to Florida reservations, but Massai escapes and decides to go it alone...