Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a battle willingly or with enthusiasm"), refused even to hunt animals. "I had a horror of the Mexican War," he once wrote, "only I had not moral courage enough to resign." From the campaigns fought by Mexican War Generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor (Grant's military idol), observant Grant shrewdly unlearned some of early 19th Century West Point's rigidified teachings, e.g., the maxim that an attacking force must be at least three times larger than a fortified defending force (U.S. commanders in Mexico repeatedly attacked such forces when outnumbered three, four or five...
...featured at the Exeter is Carol Reed's "The Fallen Idol," a suspenseful and cleverly-designed mystery piece built around the problem of telling the truth at the right time...
...Fallen Idol. A Carol Reed-Graham Greene thriller (see above) with Ralph Richardson and Child Actor Bobby Henrey (TIME, April...
...Fallen Idol. A Carol Reed-Graham Greene thriller (see above) with Ralph Richardson and Child Actor Bobby Henrey (TIME, April...
...Fallen Idol. A Carol Reed-Graham Greene thriller (see above) with Ralph Richardson and Child Actor Bobby Henrey (TIME, April...