Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counted 76 vehicles moving with lights undimmed toward the border south of Jerusalem. The Israelis snaked forward through wadies and past white boulders that gleamed like bones in the moonlight. "Can you see them?" a Jordan colonel asked. "Yes," answered an officer in a forward post. "I estimate a regiment." Moments later the Israelis struck in three forces, swarming over two village National Guard outposts and bayoneting the defenders, advancing with halftracks against their main objective, the Husan police fortress commanding the Jerusalem-Bethlehem road. After a bitter fight, they dynamited the fort with a roar heard in Jerusalem...
...soldier who fought the Germans in two wars, spent five years in their prison camps and another three commanding a regiment in the postwar German occupation, General Bolle got plenipotentiary powers and was answerable to nobody in his new job. He swore in a 37-man civil service, including two gendarmes, to carry out his orders. As virtual dictator, French-speaking General Bolle might well have exerted a tyrannical sway over the 704 German-speaking woodcutters, dairy farmers, amateur smugglers, refugees and commuters (to nearby towns in Belgium and Germany) who peopled his realm. But General Bolle was not that...
...Burma in March 1944, the British I-Wallahs were taken by surprise as the Japanese launched 100,000 men across the Chindwin River in what was to be the invasion of India. The 4th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment had been in the Arakan along the India-Burma border, fighting its own war with the Japanese. They had just learned this costly trade and had the Japanese on the run when they were pulled out north by river boat and truck and dumped on the mountain village of Kohima, a collection of huts 5,000 ft. high...
Died. Albert Woolson, 109, last surviving Union veteran of the Civil War,* at 17 enlisted (October 1864) as a drummer in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, traveled with Union occupation forces through Tennessee but saw no action; of lung congestion; in Duluth. Chipper, cigar-smoking Woolson was senior vice commander of the once influential (peak membership in 1890: 408,489) Grand Army of the Republic, which held its last encampment...
...from 1.5? to 2.5? per mile cheaper than competitors' buses. The economics of the motor-coach industry are such that a fraction of a cent operating cost per mile can spell the difference between success and failure of the operator. It would appear that the action seeks to regiment the customer-in effect telling him that he is not free to buy the product where he can get it to his best advantage...