Word: legion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-awaited deadline was not greeted by everyone with cheers. Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, King of the Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan, watched his Arab Legion assemble. With the first glimmer of dawn, the troops began to wind down the road to the Jordan Valley in tanks, armored cars and trucks. Their first operations were to occupy villages north and south of Jerusalem...
...French, 2,000 members of the Foreign Legion and infantry, remain particularly attached to a land France administered under a League of Nations mandate until 1943 and where, to this day, French remains the second language. They have stationed themselves in Beirut proper, maintaining highly visible patrols in vehicles and on foot through the city. Partly because of their high exposure, and also because they have undertaken extensive disposal of unexploded bombs from previous fighting, they have suffered the heaviest casualties. Operating from the ambassador's former residence, which was heavily damaged in last year's war, they...
DIED. LeRoy Prinz, 88, movie choreographer who staged athletic, high-kicking dance routines in such classics as Yankee Doodle Dandy and South Pacific; in Hollywood. A renowned raconteur who often told of his youthful adventures as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion and as entertainment coordinator for Al Capone's nightclubs, Prinz once declared: "The public thinks that a dancing master is a flighty individual with a handkerchief in his sleeve and a set of taps on his shoes. I'd rather you called me Butch...
...while five candidates hope days of handshaking and thousands of dollars pay off at the ballot box. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) has steered clear of this derby. Instead, he and a legion of college students including about 25 from Harvard, will today canvass New Hampshire, the scene of the first official primary next February...
...case that made the CDC known to the public at large remains a classic in the annals of medical detective work. In July 1976, Pennsylvania chapters of the American Legion held a rollicking convention at Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel. In the next few days, eleven Pennsylvanians died, apparently of pneumonia; a Legion officer alerted health authorities that the victims all had attended the convention. A phone call was made to Atlanta for help. Late that night, Dr. Theodore Tsai, an EIS officer, arrived in the state health office, carrying a cooler, to collect blood samples and respiratory secretions...