Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edward and Katharine, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the titled but yet unchristened infant earl-tenth in line to the British throne-has an imperial adventure ahead. Along with his father, a captain in the Royal Scots Greys, he will soon move to Hong Kong as the transferred regiment's unofficial mascot...
...Russian words, Smert Shpionam (Death to Spies). It was formed just before World War II by the then NKVD. Its mission was the tracking down and punishment of foreign spies, and to detect any signs of dissent within the ranks of the Soviet armed forces. Every battalion, regiment and company of the Red army had a SMERSH agent attached to it, as did all active units of the navy and air force...
...self-reliant citizenship and in excessive power concentration." To back up his charge that Kennedy is asking for too many powers, Ike cited Kennedy's requests for authority to modify income taxes when he decides it is necessary, to finance emergency public works by diversion of funds, to "regiment all agriculture," to "take over a whole host of state and local responsibilities, notably including the proposal for a Department of Urban Affairs," and "to dilute the independence of the Federal Reserve Board by presidential appointment of its chairman." Added Ike: "The objectives under lying many such proposals...
...harshly. Charlotte Forten, a winsome Philadelphia Negro girl, left behind a diary that tells of her budding romance with a blue-blooded Boston abolitionist, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, on the romantic Sea Islands off the South Carolina coast. She was schooling newly liberated slaves; he was leading a Negro regiment. But the colonel suddenly developed a mysterious injury, left for the North, and never tried to reach Charlotte again. Wilson dryly notes: "We can imagine his attitude toward Charlotte: sympathetic, approving, instructive, very sure of his benevolence. This had all been a beautiful experience...
...Private Regiment. The area was chosen with special care: the grasslands at the foot of Ouarsenis mountains, 100 miles west of Algiers. It is a region inhabited by some 30,000 Berber tribesmen who are ruled by their French-appointed bachaga (chief), Said Boualem, 55, a tall, gaunt landowner with the commanding face of a Sioux warrior. Boualem is an ex-major of the French army and was repeatedly decorated for gallantry in the Italian campaign of World War II. Best of all, he was a comrade-in-arms and old friend of ex-Colonel Jean Gardes, a top aide...