Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freeze the scene with absolute accuracy. But the Special came astonishingly close. His severest critics were the troops; when the illustrated weeklies reached the front, their pictures were carefully measured against the memories of the subjects themselves. "I beg to say," wrote a major of the 9th New York Regiment to Leslie's in 1862, "that your illustrations of the victories on Roanoke Island are very correct." If the artist erred, he was certain to hear of it. Alfred Waud was greeted with derisive hoots for his picture of the charge of Sickles' Brigade at Fair Oaks...
...German days Grosz could be outrageous at times, but always he was outraged, and his searing anger burns through to this day. He learned to draw -or so he liked to say-in the officers' club his widowed mother ran for an aristocratic Prussian regiment in Pomerania. There "decrepit old men" would outline lewd pictures with soap on the mirror over the bar, and the boy would copy them in secret. Hardly noticed by them, he closely observed his mother's arrogant, stiff-backed, high-collared customers, whom he delighted in imitating all the rest of his life...
...been criticizing for years. As the newly appointed White House staffer charged with drawing up proposals to reform the agencies, Landis plans to draft a whole regiment of legislation to push through his changes. The new Administration has a great opportunity to free business to move faster, make more of its own decisions...
...students I came across in 45 years of teaching who seemed to be born mature and adequate to any situation." The 1925 high school yearbook records that 16-year-old Dean ("Rusty") Rusk was president of the senior class, colonel of the school R.O.T.C. regiment, president of the Hi-Y Club, a member of the honor society, the debating council and the track squad, associate editor of the school newspaper-and editor of the yearbook. It did not record that he had started up a class in Greek along...
...government had massed 30,000 police and soldiers in Algiers to handle rioting by European mobs; they could not handle the' outpouring of Moslems. On Sunday afternoon, a paratroop regiment arrived from the back country, where it had been battling the rebel F.L.N. Rushed to the Moslem quarter of Belcourt, the paratroops took one look at the flag-waving Moslems and then advanced, firing submachine guns from the hip. Explained the paratroop colonel: "My men have been fighting the rebels in the Aurés Mountains. They are amazed to come up against the very same rebel flag...