Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girl's Best Friend. In Taipei, Formosa, after winning a $15,000, 17-carat diamond ring in a lottery, Navy Lieut. Lin Shou Ming received 37 proposals of marriage...
...WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS (841 pp.) -Lieut. Colonel Mattie E. Treadwell-The Department ot the Army...
...planning program, which included the unhappy task of designing a corps uniform. The members of her staff, says the history, "faithfully wore sample undergarments while carrying on preplanning ; male planners offered their best guesses in the matter, and the staff became accustomed, as one member noted, to 'seeing Lieut. F. stalk through the office with a cigar in one hand and a pair of pink panties in the other.' " The heraldic section of the Quartermaster General's office submitted designs for insignia. A first attempt "produced only a busy-bee-like insect, which Mrs. Hobby pronounced...
...this-is-how-it-really-was quality, Heartbreak is far more than a newsreel. It threads its story on the trial-by-fire of young Lieut. Gérard Garcet, a replacement starch-fresh from St. Cyr. At first Career Officer Garcet learns a basic lesson-war is mostly waiting...
...deeper heartbreak, as Lieut. Garcet learns, lies not in the infantryman's Iliad of anguish and backbreaking toil at the bloody Korean ridge. It lies in the bitter knowledge that at home the sacrifice has largely gone unnoticed. For France's "les oubliés" (forgotten ones) and for all the others who went to Korea, Heartbreak Ridge is both a stirring reminder and an epitaph...