Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Views on Mules. Half a dozen Democrats were on their feet. What did U.S. voters mean in the last election if they did not mean the Taft-Hartley Act should be repealed? Northern Democrats warned that 103 members who voted for the act in the spring of 1947 had been beaten at the November 1948 polls...
...exultant Communist radio described the scene of the crossing: "The river rang with silvery notes of bugles and martial music . . . Boats by the thousands shuttled between the northern and southern banks . . . As 1,000 guns belched fire and smoke, the Yangtze waters were lit up in a lurid glare...
Last week, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Willem Jacob Luyten announced that he had discovered a double star which is only about six light years (35 trillion miles) away from the solar system. It is thus the nearest known star that can be seen regularly in the Northern Hemisphere. (The nearest of all stars, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, are 4.3 light years away, but are usually visible only.in the Southern Hemisphere...
...much the same way, another amateur-turned-general, Richard Mentor Johnson, licked Tecumseh by using cavalry as mounted infantry. In the Civil War, two Northern generals, John Buford and Phil Sheridan, carried Johnson's tactic still further; they broke completely with the flashy hit & run use of men on horseback, and employed cavalry as "a fast motorized column of infantry...
Cannon for Doughfeet. Four of Pratt's eleven are Civil War generals, all of them Northern. The best of the studies in this group is that of George H. Thomas, "the old gray mare of the Union," a Virginia-born artilleryman who commanded infantry and was certain that the chief role of the big guns was to give the footsloggers a hand. Wearing his finest uniform, "all togged out like a Christmas tree," the famed Rock of Chickamauga "rode along the line, bellowing in a voice audible to every man within a hundred yards that help was coming...