Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wainwright's formal qualifications for leadership were good but not extraordinary. Born at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., where his father was serving, he went to West Point and built himself an orthodox career in the cavalry. He served with the ist Cavalry, fought the Moros in the Philippines, had a succession of combat staff jobs in France in World War I, and went through the usual round of peacetime assignments. In 1940, as a temporary major general, he was sent to command the Philippine division. On Pearl Harbor Day, Wainwright was senior field commander under Douglas MacArthur...
...tale about an English cathedral town and the faith that sustained it (14th century). In The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan made diverting entertainment out of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain (sth century). Now, in an almost equally engaging yarn, Henry Treece reaches back to the time (ist century) when the Romans had just conquered Britain-an era when proper Britons worshipped the sun and painted blue marks on their foreheads to show their rank...
Whatever Hutcheson was up to, his walkout had an important result. It led to the election to the executive council of Dave Beck, tough, ambitious boss of the 1,400,000-strong International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers. When ist Vice President Bill Hutcheson departed, the twelve other v.p.s each moved up a notch, leaving a vacancy at the bottom. As head of the biggest A.F.L. union, Beck was an obvious choice. But the machinists' Al Hayes had been promised the next opening. Upshot: compromise. Beck became the 13th vice president, and Hayes' hopes were kept...
...although the motorcade roared down to Quantico at 70 m.p.h., the President was late, and the official welcoming party was confused and missed his arrival. When he finally caught up with the President, Quantico Commandant Lieut. General Clifton B. Gates was blushing like a buck private on the ist sergeant's carpet. "Sorry we gummed up this detail, sir," he said. "It is the first bust we have had." Ike thought it was a fine joke...
...crop-haired battalion commander took a soggy cigar from his mouth, flicked a switch, and called his companies: "Thanks for sticking out the war. You'll be all right now if you don't step on a mine on the way back." At the ist Marine Division, a bugler played taps. Despite the sober warnings, men dashed from their bunkers, shed their flak jackets, then stood around in little groups, talking, in a no man's land that was suddenly safe...