Word: shoup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a "happy, warless New Year" greeting to his Pentagon staff. Said Leatherneck Shoup: "A year ago I took the grips of the plow in my hands. After pushing an accumulation of vines and weeds from the moldboard, I lifted the lines from the dust and found hitched to that plow the finest team I ever held a rein on. Little geeing and hawing have been necessary." But Shoup also...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Marine Corps Commandant David M. Shoup appears in the story of Tarawa, the battle in which he won the Medal of Honor. Also on the program: Kiyoshi Ohta, one of 17 Japanese who survived (from a total force...
More conspicuous in the minds of most men assembled in the East Room were more recent events. Watching the ceremony were Marine Commandant David Shoup, who earned his Medal of Honor at Tarawa, and Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke, who earned his nickname by sending his destroyer flotillas racing against the Japanese fleet at their top speed. There may well have been memories for Prime Minister Kishi, who, in bygone days, signed Japan's declaration of war against...