Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prince's slight frame was fitted out in olive drab and hung with the ritual cordon and sword. In one swoop, he was promoted from civilian to lieutenant general (Belgium's highest military rank) with nothing to bolster such splendor but an uncertain salute learned in Boy Scout days, still shaky despite much practice before a mirror...
Dumas became operating vice president of Southern Bell in 1938 and president in 1943 (last year's salary: $75,000). Go-getter Dumas is also an enthusiastic local do-gooder, which is what Bell likes its executives to be. Said one friend: "Hal is just naturally a boy scout-as well as a good businessman...
Into his place went Fred M. Nelson, 54, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines in 1925, who worked as a geophysicist before going to Texas Gulf in 1927 as a $200-a-month geological scout...
...varsity baseball team crept from behind yesterday afternoon in Brookline to win a soggy 6 to 4 ball game from Northeastern, before the eyes of a dozen spectators, great quantities of small children and a St. Louis Cardinals scout...
...Master Sergeant Arthur Tucker's Patton hit a mine about eight miles north of Seoul while reconnoitering a bypass around a blown bridge. Its left tread peeled off like a snake's discarded skin; the men inside crawled out to shiver in the sunlight. Then an armored scout car, with a British bridge-building detachment, hit another mine, bounced up & turned over. Two groggy but otherwise uninjured Britons climbed out. A South Korean jeep coming over to inspect the double mishap struck a third mine, was blown into a tangle of steel, rubber and wire. The rest...