Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early afternoon when Dr. Shultz got the call: five-year-old Sara Sharr had been kicked in the head by a mule at Golden Trout Camp, 10,000 feet high in California's Sierra Nevada range. That was 25 roadless miles from the doctor's office in Lone Pine (elev. 3,728 ft.). No plane could land near the camp. Nothing to do but pack in. At 3 :30, Dr. Shultz set out on horseback, with a mule carrying a stretcher, an instrument bag and plasma...
...seem as if the Great Homecoming were finally over. But the general had more than one gusher of hospitality in reserve: last week he flew off to Texas (in an Eastern Airlines Constellation chartered by his oil-rich hosts) for a four-day, five-speech circuit of the Lone Star State...
...section and platoon leaders, but they had had to learn the deadly lessons of combat under enemy fire. One outfit, Able Company, 7th Regiment, 3rd Division, went ashore at Wonsan last November with West Pointers leading three of its four platoons. By February, two had been killed and the lone survivor, All-America Quarterback Arnold Galiffa, had been taken out of front-line combat to become General Ridgway's aide. In another company, in the 2nd Division, one of its three West Point platoon leaders was killed, the other two wounded. Football Captain John Trent ('50) was killed...
...into Lubianka to be "interrogated." The charge: that they had conspired with the Germans against the Red army and the Soviet Union. Neither drugs nor storybook tortures were used, yet 14 out of the 15 who stood trial (one was too ill) "confessed" their "guilt." The story of the lone exception, Stypulkowski, shows...
...Congressional Record for Feb. 19, 1947. Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin told Congress that he had asked General MacArthur whether he (MacArthur) had "cast the lone dissenting vote against the guilty verdict." MacArthur replied: "... Your recollection of my part in [Mitchell's] trial is entirely correct. It was fully known to him, and he never ceased to express his gratitude for my attitude...