Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mechanic, three unemployed civilians and a student. They wore sports shirts mostly, open at the neck with the sleeves rolled up, and they had come to Governors Island in New York Harbor from distant places-Denver and Detroit, Cottonwood, Ala., and Hanging Rock, Ohio -for a long-awaited Army reunion. Center of the reunion: a clean-looking young Regular Army sergeant who smiled winningly beneath a mop of golden hair...
...occasion for the reunion was a general court-martial, and the accused was the lad with the golden hair. Sergeant James C. Gallagher of Brooklyn was charged in ten specifications with consorting with the Chinese Communists and murdering three of his fellow American prisoners of war in Korea. The witnesses were sharp-tongued and bitter; one testified that he had buried one of the three dead G.I.s beside the Yalu River, and he swore: "I made a promise to that kid . . . that if God permitted me to get back home alive . . . the man who murdered him would be brought...
...shed on San Francisco's Embarcadero last week stood three young men, stiff and ill at ease, listening intently while an MP captain read an official paper. They had just had a happy reunion with their families, whom they had not seen in five years, and now the unpleasantness was about to begin...
During the weekend, Major John Eisenhower, his wife and their three children arrived from Fort Belvoir, Va. for a family reunion at the farm-the last before the President, accompanied by the First Lady, departs for Geneva and next week's Parley at the Summit...
...soth reunion last week, Yale '05 proved that its old-fashioned classical education has a way of staying put. "Post quinquaginta annos amicitiae mutuae" it wired its counterparts at Harvard, "alumni Universitatis Yalensis hie in Novo Portu congregati classi simili Harvardensi salu-tem plurimam dicimus." As any Harvard-man would know, this was another way of saying: "After 50 years of mutual friendship, we alumni of Yale University assembled here in New Haven express affectionate greetings to the corresponding class of Harvard...