Word: morose
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Polo & Headhunting. Macapagal's nation, after 18 years of independence, is an odd admixture of Spanish and American cultures. Crew-cut kids in pastel hot-rods drag for beers along Manila's broad, sleepy Roxas Boulevard. In the back streets, men smoking fat, green cigars bet on cockfights...
Fertig and his men were rank amateurs at the start. After Corregidor fell, U.S. units left on Mindanao were ordered to surrender. A few officers and men refused to obey that order. By twos and threes they slipped into the jungle, as did several American civilians and some Filipino soldiers...
A Balky Army. Even after his solid win, there were nagging doubts whether Betancourt would be allowed to get on with the job. Mobs of Caracas' solidly pro-Larrazábal citizens followed shouting young slum toughs and Communist agitators into the streets. For two days they ran wild...
Wainwright's formal qualifications for leadership were good but not extraordinary. Born at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., where his father was serving, he went to West Point and built himself an orthodox career in the cavalry. He served with the ist Cavalry, fought the Moros in the Philippines, had...
Neither heavyhanded Spanish colonists nor U.S. troops under tough General John J. Pershing have ever been able to bring the proud, fanatically religious Moros to their knees. The Philippine government does not expect to, either. But Magsaysay hopes to take most of their firearms away, and thereby bring a measure...