Word: ramrodded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vale. But for the first three days, the canny Sheik stayed put in the village of Kud among the snow-capped mountains, waiting for his followers to stir up a lion's welcome among the chilled and hungry Moslems of Srinagar. Reporters found him commanding and ramrod-straight as ever. "I am the same Sheik Abdullah," he flashed, "but I must feel the pulse of the people before I know what...
Pastor Siegfried Schmutzler, 42, is a blond, ramrod-straight veteran who does not mind a fight. Last week he won a notable struggle with the Communist government of East Germany...
...Russia's dangerous mixture of bluster and acknowledged technological performance, the free world can take considerable satisfaction from the fact that the U.S. Air Force is in command of a brilliant, unobtrusive West Pointer with a flair for understatement. Tommy White, 56, a tall, austere airman with a ramrod-back carriage, well knows the Russian danger, well knows the need to tighten and use the bomber force-in-being to best advantage while the U.S. brings in its missile force...
...civil-war-torn Madrid, I.T. & T.'s 13-story Telefonica headquarters was shelled 184 times by Franco gunners, while retreating Loyalists threatened to blow it up as a suspected spy center. Ramrod-stiff Colonel Behn himself arrived to save I.T. & T.'s besieged fortress, eventually sold the whole Spanish company to Franco for $88 million. In Western Europe, Nazi expropriations cut the 40% income that I.T. & T. got from the subsidiary International Standard Electric, to zero. But in Rumania, Behn arrived in the nick of time, sold out for $13.8 million shortly before the country went over...
...Prussian-born veteran of the Wehrmacht named Hans Hellmut Kirst wrote a book called Null-Acht-Fiinfzehn-the model number (0-8-15) of the Wehrmacht service pistol-which in Germany is a term roughly equivalent to G.I. The book snickered behind the officers' ramrod backs, put in a plea for the dignity of the individual in uniform, and demonstrated hilariously how a canny conscript like Gunner Asch could win at the old army game simply by hiding behind regulations. Old army pros denounced it, and the publisher's office was ransacked by hoodlums. But Gunner Asch became...