Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While awaiting the river's assault, the more populous Omaha-Council Bluffs area worked feverishly to strengthen flood walls, assisted by thousands of Army troops, National Guardsmen and Army Engineers. A two-foot "flashboard" was being added to the 31½-ft. levee and flood wall at Omaha. But its value was as much psychological as physical. Few expected the levee to withstand the pressure of a predicted 31½-ft. flood crest. After inspecting the inadequate dikes and flood walls, Brigadier General Don G. Shingler, Missouri River Division Engineer, remarked gloomily: "The Missouri is coming with...
...Army last week had some welcome news for 170,000 of the reservists and National Guardsmen summoned to active duty after Korea. Though their 24-month tours of duty will not begin to expire until summer, the Army will start letting them out in March. Reason: Many units (e.g., the 28th, 40th, 43rd, 45th National Guard Divisions) were called up at the same time. The Army cannot send them all home at once, must stagger the discharges over a period of months as it trains draftees to take their place...
Three Flagpoles. There were few tears in Westminster as the endless line of 305,806 people shuffled past the high catafalque, flanked by guardsmen in gleaming cuirasses and Tudor-clad Beefeaters from the Tower of London. On the third night of the watch, majestic Queen Mary came with her eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, to stand stiff and erect for 20 minutes before her son's bier. Early the next evening, Queen Elizabeth, her granddaughter, slipped in with Philip and Princess Margaret. The widowed Queen came a few hours later, and remained for 20 minutes...
...formally proclaimed. Crowds of thousands jammed Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Friary Road and The Mall. Four state trumpeters, resplendent in gold-laced tabards, stepped out on a balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard below stood guardsmen holding rifles and bandsmen with drums muffled in black. As the trumpeters blurted a brassy fanfare, Britain's Garter Principal King of Arms Sir George Bellew - flanked by the Earl Marshal, two more Kings of Arms, six Heralds and three heraldic Pursuivants, all dressed like himself in tabards...
...Crimson rifle team, which in a postal match last week beat the University of Illinois, 1350 to 1320, will fire a shoulder-to-shoulder league match with Brown and the Coast Guard Academy today at the I.A.B. rifle range. The varsity five will try to beat the Coast Guardsmen, who were last year's Southern Division champs...