Word: ramrodded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than once Alexander Papagos had rescued his country from political dissension. A ramrod-backed cavalry officer, he was educated at a Belgian military academy and first served his King and country in the Balkan War, curtain raiser to World War I. A royalist to the tip of his long, aristocratic nose, he went into exile in 1918 after King Constantine was deposed, but a couple of years later came back as a staff officer. After taking part in the campaign against Turkey, he was bounced from the army for joining a plot to restore the monarchy under George...
...moved that fast on the surface of the earth. But if all goes well, one man will. Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, a 45-year-old Air Force surgeon with the deceptive paunch of a country doctor, the ramrod posture of a professional soldier and the relentless curiosity of a dedicated scientist, plans to ride the Sonic Wind even faster. Space Surgeon Stapp intends to ride at more than 1,000 m.p.h...
Lieut. Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle, retired, sometime of the Royal Artillery, First The Royal Dragoons, and Eleventh Hussars, is a small, furious, ramrod-straight man who wears a monocle and believes in taking things into his own hands. Through his one good eye he views the world with the wary and defiant air of a man who suspects the worst, and expects to deal with it. Last week he was in jail and proud of it. The charge: forcibly taking the pants off an elderly solicitor...
...Promise. The protectionist forces moved quickly to consolidate their gain. Ohio's Republican Representative Clarence Brown moved that the bill be left wide open to amendment. But Speaker Rayburn stemmed the tide. He got up from his chair, walked down the steps to the House well, and standing ramrod straight, spoke into the microphone. Said he: "Only once in the history of the House, in 42 years in my memory, has a bill of this kind and character been considered except under a closed rule . . . So as an old friend to all of you, as a lover...
Dollars & Pounds. On hand to greet the guests last week was a beet-faced, ramrod-straight 58-year-old named Sir Eric Bowater. Having already built a small family business into a colossus, Sir Eric decided seven years ago that he could better serve his many U.S. customers (biggest: Scripps-Howard) with a U.S. mill. He decided on Calhoun because it has plenty of water, good transportation and access to vast supplies of southern pine, which has a growth cycle of only 25 years, v. 75 years for northern spruce...