Word: marshalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While at Harvard, Gundlach played guard on the football team, captaining the varsity squad in 1934. For three years he was a member of the Student Council and, in 1932 served as Class President. He was also on the Athletic Board and First Marshal of his class...
...what Pravda called "the spirit of Camp David." Earlier, there had been the shortest (seven minutes) military parade through Red Square in all the 42 years, with nothing to show in new weapons, but including an unprecedented display of small sports cars. In the main speech of the day, Marshal Malinovsky saluted Khrushchev's call for disarmament, added that since it had not yet been accepted, the Soviet armed forces must "maintain a state of high preparedness...
...military malcontents, by paying close attention to the military's fears and hopes, he has brought the army along to grudging acceptance of his offer of Algerian self-determination. Last week came the first military challenge to De Gaulle's authority. It came from the only living Marshal of France-cantankerous, Algeria-born Alphonse Juin, 70, whose once prestigious role in French affairs has diminished over the past five years as a result of ill-timed and ill-conceived forays into military politicking. De Gaulle's offer of self-determination, charged Juin in a newspaper article...
With justice, the agreement to return Trieste to Italy was widely hailed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy-the happiest feasible outcome of a territorial dispute that had long poisoned relations between Italy and Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia. But this week, as the fifth anniversary of the great day approached, no one felt like putting out more flags. When Trieste's Mayor Mario Franzil laid a wreath in the piazza in memory of pro-Italian rioters killed during the Allied occupation, only the pigeons looked on. After five years of Italian rule, once flourishing Trieste is dying economically...
After informing a rapt audience that "I am the first honest man Mr. Khrushchev has ever met," Britain's ripsnorting Field Marshal Lord Montgomery announced that he will undertake a new, one-man peace mission in January. His new quarry: India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Monty's forthright plan of approach: "I am going to talk to him and say to him, '.What is going on out here in Asia? What is it all about...