Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, reports Captain Duffy in the Annals of Surgery, he saw 24 such cases in El Paso, and surgeons elsewhere have seen scores more, mostly around military bases. For whereas the organized fast-draw clubs, encouraged by the firearms industry, make sure that their would-be Wyatt Earps and Marshal Dillons use only blank ammunition or wax bullets, too many young servicemen practice the game with full-load ammunition complete with lead slug. For economy's sake, they usually content themselves with a .22-caliber weapon. This can do plenty of damage, but a heavier weapon is far worse...
...party, Steinbaum starts off strong, determined to resist any blandishments. When he meets his host, the German air marshal, he complains about the treatment of prisoners. The big, bluff marshal half admonishes, half humors the colonel, above all takes him into his confidence. The marshal, a kind of Hermann Göring character, exudes animal vitality, lives lustily and apologizes for nothing. He is engagingly frank with Steinbaum: "I don't see anything but beasts, scrapping and clawing each other from the beginning of time. I neither invent another world that isn't there...
...made by certain participants in the recent National Conference on Religion and Race [Jan. 25]. Religious bodies in the U.S. deserve their quota of blame for neglect of the acute racial issue. But I fail to see past failures as an excuse for scoffing at an honest effort to marshal joint religious forces in an all-out assault upon the rapidly growing spirit of racial hatred. Are we to leave untried the power of a united appeal to our country's conscience just because it looks funny to see Protestants, Jews and Catholics sitting down at the same table...
Arrogant in victory, Krim next challenged the French and was finally overwhelmed by a combined Franco-Spanish army of 300,000 men led by Marshal Henri Petain, which blasted his mountain strongholds with artillery and bombs until Krim at last surrendered in May 1926. The Spanish army, one of whose officers was Generalissimo Francisco Franco, wanted Krim executed, but the French more gallantly shipped him off to exile on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean...
Philip H. Theobald '25, president of the alumni association, named him chief marshal. Traditionally, the chief marshal is chosen from the clss holding its twenty-fifth reunion...