Word: grenadiere
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In 2 a.m. darkness, a fire alarm clanged alive at the barracks of Britain's Grenadier Guards in the Chelsea section of London. Guardsmen scrambled aboard two old-fashioned civil defense fire trucks and sped toward a blaze reported out of control in the student quarters of King'...
Catching an airplane at most major European airports last week was a little like participating in military maneuvers. London's busy Heathrow was boxed by tanks with cannons uncovered and Grenadier Guards in battle kit. Rome's Ciampino had a sandbagged machine gun nest atop its control tower...
WITH THAT he put a batch of clippings from the Sunday dailies and the wire services on my desk. They told of a shooting which had occured late Saturday night in a crowded neighborhood tavern. The clippings said police knew of no motive. They named the dead man and identified...
Died. Peter Fleming, 64, peripatetic man of action and letters; of a heart attack; in Black Mount, Scotland. Though less famous as a writer than his older brother Ian, who created James Bond, Peter Fleming produced minor classics. His books Brazilian Adventure (1933) and News from Tartary (1936) are still...
Last week King Freddie came home to a hero's welcome. He was dressed in the uniform of a major general and accompanied by an honor guard from his old regiment, the British Grenadier Guards. His plane, a chartered 707, was escorted by four Uganda air force jet fighters...