Word: ist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to you I now know, at least, what the hell they're talking about. FLOYD A. HATFIELD ist Lieutenant c/o Postmaster San Francisco...
...Canadian soldier came to the defense of the Canadian civilian last week. On leave from Canada's ist Division, Captain Alan Chambers took his seat in the House of Commons. There, a few days before, a fellow officer, R.C.A.F. Group Captain Denton Massey, had berated Canadians for their complacency (TIME, May 8). Up rose Captain Chambers to reply...
...proposal to revitalize the world's slowest sport was made last week by 60-year-old John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, plump Lieut. Colonel, the ist Baron Brabazon of Tara. Writing in the British journal, Chess, he proposed that the starting positions of the king and queen be switched. "Away with all this opening undergrowth that is dragging down the game," cried the Baron...
Troops alerted all over Buenos Aires. At Campo Mayo were 18,000 men who, with the ist and 2nd Infantry Regiments, were ready to strike for the colonels. For the President the nth Cavalry, the 3rd and 4th Infantry stood to arms. Two top colonels, Juan Domingo Peron and Eduardo Avalos, and War Minister Edelmiro Farrell conferred with President Ramirez at his residence. Ramirez backed down, agreed to sacrifice his Foreign Minister and Presidential Secretary. Later he denied that he had considered declaring...
...handsomest Chinese fighter pilot in the European Theater of Operations" is what slight, Hawaiian-born Lieut. Kong calls himself (he is the only one; there are a few Chinese-American bombermen). He got into flying by way of the Corps of Engineers, for which he worked as a chem ist after he finished the University of Hawaii. Between missions he tries to teach other pilots Hawaiian without nota ble success. They cannot even learn to say "Hemakana Hewahewa Okalani Yim," which is his niece Shirley's Hawaiian name...