Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Haiphong with 10,000 men selected from the elite regiments of Dien-bienphu; frozen-faced, in green uniforms and the inevitable sneakers, they carried identical bouquets of flowers. But when Haiphong was secure and with it the whole of North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million), Ho's orthodox Communist purge got under...
...strategy and tactics were orthodox: there was no time for trickery. He would hit a 20-mile sector of the German line with successive waves of infantry, each wave 20 to 30 divisions strong. Sometimes the German gunners would run out of ammunition. When he had punched a hole in the line, Red army tanks with infantry riding on their backs would drive through, sweep around and encircle the enemy flanks. Sometimes Zhukov trapped as many as ten German divisions this way. He would then stand off and pound them to pieces with his artillery. Writes German General Guderian: "Whenever...
Jewish, Catholic, and Greek Orthodox groups will all probably use the House for counselling services, according to Buttrick...
...Communication Service, a nonprofit foundation to provide electronic equipment to missionaries around the world. Vaus, his wife Alice and three children live on $400 a month. Missionary Communication Service stands to profit by the movie version of Jim's life. Except for an inspirational ending, it is an orthodox crime thriller, complete "with gunplay and side-mouthed snarls. The big conversion scene shows Billy Graham at work, and he might move some spectators as he did the movie's hero. But after a recent Los Angeles preview, one preacher rose to strike a blow for those who abhor...
Reinhold Niebuhr, eminent Protestant theologian and vice-president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, will preach before a congregation in Memorial Chapel at 11 a.m. this Sunday. Niebuhr, a leader of the Neo-Orthodox movement in Protestantism, is a member of the University Board of Preachers...