Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard-Bitten Veterans. The Army of the Potomac was less of a mystery to Grant. He knew that a handful of bumbling leaders-from McDowell to Hooker -had given it a galloping inferiority complex about Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. By 1864, not only morale but men were ebbing away as their enlistments came to an end. Yet Grant pinned his faith on hard-bitten veterans like the soldier who said: "They use a man here just the same as they do a turkey at a shooting match, fire at it all day and if they...
Seeking a larger representation of Northern teams this year, the Forum Committee is making a concerted effort to draw schools from this side of the Mason-Dixon line...
...listless fighting of the Bao Dai forces has demonstrated that a guarantee of complete independence within a few years is the prerequisite to raising more troops. By undermining the appeal of the Communist anti-imperialist slogans, this promise would also weaken the Red clutch on crucial Northern Viet-Nam. Not only pride out conscience should compel the French to set up the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can be taught to do for themselves what Europeans have been unable to do for them...
...raping women and seizing livestock. On at least two occasions, the Chinese invaders fought pitched battles against Indian border guards before withdrawing. ¶Red Chinese thugs are waylaying and robbing Hindu pilgrims on the way to the headwaters of the sacred river Ganges, at Gangotri, on India's northern border. ¶ Mao Tse-tung's warlords are grabbing the bulk of India's trade with Tibet, beating, murdering and exacting protection money from Indian merchants who try to compete...
...varmint who goes into a dance step just before he blazes away. ¶ The Black Knight (Columbia) a "medieval western," offers deadpan Alan Ladd as a knight on the town. ¶ Saskatchewan (Alan Ladd) and The Far Country (James Stewart) take place in Canada and Alaska, are called "northern westerns" by Universal-International. ¶ War Clouds (United Artists) is notable for a sequence in which the whiteman hero (Rory Calhoun), armed with bow & arrow, fights it out with a gun-toting Indian...