Word: reunions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then there's the Class of '32's most outstanding member, Barry Wood. Since we have never predicted him before, he is an even better possibility. And add to that the fact that his class will be celebrating its 25th Reunion and that he is Vice-Chancellor of Johns Hopkins University, and former all-American quarterback, and an outstanding (summa and Phi Bete) undergraduate in Bio-Chemical Sciences, and it all adds up to a shoo...
Later, Sukarno received his colonels at the palace, in a backslapping meeting reminiscent of a class reunion. When photographers' flashbulbs popped around Sukarno's onetime bodyguard, Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, who had taken power in East Indonesia, Sumual protested in Dutch: "My God, you all think I'm a rebel! I'm not, you know." And he meant it. What Sumual and his fellow officers, rebellious but at the same time eager to be loyal, wanted was an end to corruption, to inefficiency, and to Sukarno's odd persistence in wanting Communists in the government...
First order of business was an informal reunion of coaches, judges and other miscellaneous friends of the trade at which acquaintances and feuds were renewed and gossip exchanged...
...rest of society. Now that war has been healed by the international crisis, which has placed us all in the same sinking boat, by the spread of liberal education, and by the comforting new ministrations of religion and political philosophy. Today, out of many, we are one. This reunion may have enriched the common stock, but it has also certainly eliminated the cream...
...steel helmets into saucepans. Within a year they are beating plowshares back into steel helmets. The author's debatable but haunting notion that history may be repeating itself in postwar Germany is enhanced when the general is released and delivers an impassioned blood-and-iron speech at a reunion of his ex-comrades-inarms. As he raises his arms to his Prussian god and furiously demands, "Give me back my career!". Von Puckhammer goes completely, if implausibly, mad-"manic-depressive insanity,'' according to the asylum doctor, being "the occupational malady of military...