Word: morose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religion: With the Spaniards came Catholic priests, and today the Philippines are 80% Catholic. But there are some 700,000 Moslems (the proud, independent tribesmen on Mindanao and Sulu whom the Spaniards named Moros after their own Moors), pagans (some 625,000), Buddhists (about 47,000), Shintoists (13,000), Protestants...
Military Career: Served in the Philippines after graduation from West Point, and saw his first battle action in brushes with the Moros. Spent a year as an aide to his father's good friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1907. He went on the U.S. expedition which seized Veracruz, Mexico...