Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government by crony goes back much farther . . . Tacitus, Roman historian, speaks of Felix, governor of Judea in the ist Century: "This man did not think it necessary to impose any restraint on his desires. He considered his connection with the emperor's favorite as a license for the worst of crimes...
...battered but indomitable U.S.1st Cavalry Division had been trying, against savage enemy resistance, to push the Reds out of hills from which they could fire on the rail line from Seoul to Chorwon, the allied-held west corner of the old Red Iron Triangle. Last week, as the ist Cavalry's men waded in with bayonets and grenades, enemy resistance suddenly collapsed as the beaten Chinese Communists pulled out to the north. The G.I.s moved into the enemy bunkers and other strong points-some of which were taken without firing a shot-and the U.N. rail line was secure...
...years, but may be forced to concede it sooner. Egypt's peremptory claim of control of the Sudan is opposed by all but one political party in the Sudan. And the resident British Governor General, square-faced Sir Robert Howe, is in control. The ist Battalion of the South Lancashire Infantry Regiment, stationed at Trieste, embarked for Khartoum, the Sudan capital...
...There, as a doughboy in the 32nd Infantry Division, he was wounded in battle, contracted malaria, won the Bronze Star. After the war, he went back to the reservation at Winnebago, Neb., but soon re-enlisted as a Regular Army man. Last September, serving as a rifleman with the ist Cavalry Division above Taegu in Korea, Sergeant John Rice, 37, was killed in action...
...Early Days. The men he owes his life to are the medics and surgeons of the Army's ist Provisional Neurosurgical Detachment and its trim, brown-haired commander, Lieut. Colonel Arnold M. Meirowsky. In the early days in Korea, it often took a week or more be fore a man with a delicate head wound could be gotten to a neurosurgeon back in Tokyo. The chances of infection are great in head and spinal wounds; too many of the first cases died or suffered crippling paralysis. Nowadays, thanks to forward-area teams, wounded men are being treated...