Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technician class. First Sergeant Leonard T. Berry deplored the Army's changes over his 19 years. "If I try to get 50 guys to parade, I can't do it." he growled. "They think all they have to do is out there in the pits." Old Soldier Berry still insists on the traditional Friday night "G.I. Party" if the battery's comfortable barracks looks unscrubbed. Suspiciously, he watches such innovations as midmorning (9:30-10) coffee breaks, midafternoon Coke breaks, mechanical potato peelers, dishwashers. EDUCATION IN THE RANKS...
...covers, and each one signed. Gruenther also helped get the autograph of Field Marshal Montgomery, who wrote across his cover portrait, "Montgomery of Alamein." Another West Pointer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, class of 1915, has appeared on TIME'S cover more than anyone else-13 times since 1942, as soldier, candidate and President*-and has signed two covers for Carter...
...British press made it plain that it thought Monty would somehow foul up the summit conference. "The idea of you having a heart-to-heart talk with Khrushchev gives us the collywobbles," cried the Laborite Daily Herald. The Daily Sketch had some advice "to an old and meddling soldier: FADE AWAY." In just as unseasonably warm tones, the British press has been lecturing Adenauer, De Gaulle or any U.S. Senator who has anything harsh to say about Russia, as if to speak firmly were to jeopardize the chances of negotiation and peace. London's popular press presents the Berlin...
Kataki (by Shimon Wincelberg) is a play, originally done on television (TIME, March 24, 1958), with two characters, one of them a Japanese soldier who speaks all but a few of his lines in Japanese. Marooned with him on a South Pacific island near the end of World War II is a bird-brained, teen-age American G.I. who chitters with naive notions and cliches. The Japanese is seemingly incapable of an ignoble act, while the American is a bundle of petty spites and treachery...
...Crimson team will once more have to contend with Phil Tarasovic, when the rugby squad faces the New York Rugby Club today at Soldier's Field. Tarasovic, who put fullback Tony Gianelli out of action in the '55 Harvard-Yale football game, will start for New York as a scrum hooker. He now weighs in at 240 pounds and should provide considerable power in New York's forward line...