Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none other than President Eisenhower, at his own press conference, repeated Dulles' key criticism of Chiang's Quemoy buildup. Said Ike: "I believe, as a soldier, that was not a good thing to do, to have all those troops there." Ike's strongest press-conference statement...
...played by Curt Jurgens, the colonel is the classic Prussian soldier: "I don't think, I act. Food--I eat, woman--I love, war--I fight." At which point Jacobowsky murmurs, "The finest mind of the 12th Century...
...Paris, marched briskly past cheering troops (including a blue-grey contingent of the Germans he had fought so well in World War II). Then Monty shook hands with his boyish-looking boss, U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, 51, and drove off. "Silly old boy," mused one British private soldier, "but we'll miss...
...Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1950, finished five years later in Rome, called it "the most difficult statue I have made." Milles early turned down the suggested subject for the memorial, a figure of the Good Samaritan, in favor of St. Martin of Tours, a 4th century Roman soldier. Something of a Samaritan himself, St. Martin, in the depths of the drastic, winter of 332 A.D. in France, cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to a freezing beggar. To give full scope to his heroic theme, Milles carved a 14-ft.-high figure...
...warning signed, Colonel George Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground, EOKA, last week ended his truce with the British authorities who rule embattled Cyprus. It came as news to many Britons on the island that there ever had been a "truce." In the previous week one British soldier had been killed and four wounded in a seven-hour gun battle in which they killed four EOKA men holed up in a barn near Famagusta; on the streets of Nicosia, a British airman walking hand-in-hand with his wife was murdered by three EOKA gunmen, who fired five...