Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky, 71 Soviet military strategist, who helped engineer the massive attack on Berlin in the closing days of World War II later directed the infamous 1948 Berlin blockade; after a long illness; in Moscow. Famed both as staff officer and field general. Sokolovsky absorbed one of his few defeats when he and his bosses vastly underestimated both the will and capability of the allies to supply beleaguered Berlin...
...Robert P. Marshall Jr., third marshal of the Harvard class, cried "creeping mergerism." "This was their idea," Marshall emphasized...
Implicit in the action, Richard M. Sims 3L, Marshal of the Committee, said yesterday, is a "strong disapproval" of the Faculty's vote...
...characters, with the exception of Gilbert's rather savage self-portrait, King Gama, are splendidly familiar. The marshal chorus, sometimes seen as a patrol of bobbies, sometimes as a well-buckled line of officers consists of the three sons of King Gama, Neil Fairbairn, William Baker and Ted Rau: wonderful as a trio of bass clarinets. The expected Friends of the Suitor are played with tolerable alacrity by John B. McKean and David Evitts. As for the suitor himself, Hilarion, his name is, nothing more need be said than that Danius Turek is filling an accustomed role with acustomed accomplishment...
...paradigm. Individualists claw their way through the unrelieved shootings, stabbings, rapes and lynchings of American fiction; lone duelers against fate people the works of writers as various as Melville, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Saul Bellow. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking and his numerous uptight descendants-the Western marshal, the private eye-are solitary scouts strewing the wilderness with dead Indians and renegades. Still, the singular misfits who tamed the frontier with bile, brawn and bowies were also members of often hostile groups-cattlemen v. sheepherders, for example. Indeed, U.S. history roils with political violence, much of it self-defense...