Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promotion added another paratrooper to the growing list of airborne officers in the Army's top commands. Others: Major General James M. Gavin, Army representative on the Defense Department's top-level Weapons Evaluation Board; Major General Clovis Byers, G-r on the General Staff; Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, now in command of the Eighth Army in Korea (see Cover...
...Eighth Army wasn't letting the enemy have any rest. Having taken the Communist blow in central Korea and then thrown it back with bloody losses, General Matthew Ridgway's men last week waded in after the retreating...
Without introduction or flourish, Little David himself suddenly appeared on the platform. Scrubbed and neat in a light gray suit, he looked more like an Eagle Scout than an evangelist. But he was up to fever heat in a few minutes and began screaming out passages from Matthew about the end of the world...
This week the Reds broke contact over most of a 70-mile front, fell back to lick their wounds. Matthew Ridgway, who is not given to boasting, claimed a clear-cut victory: "We have defeated the Communist counteroffensive in the central sector. The Communists have taken a fearful beating, and have disengaged...
...five years by convocation, i.e., popular vote. It is the only chair of its kind at Oxford or Cambridge. As the 33rd incumbent, C. Day Lewis will be one of the few practicing poets ever to occupy it. In the past, historians and theologians predominated. His most distinguished predecessor, Matthew Arnold, held the post two terms...