Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then read a final statement: "Bigeard does not wish his departure to be exploited by political parties. He is neither of the right nor of the left. His expulsion from North Africa distresses him considerably, but he does not hate anyone for it. As a soldier he had only one desire-and that was to help rebuild a young, well-equipped, sportsmanlike army with a great ideal." To the swarms of reporters who greeted him in Paris, the exiled colonel simply reread the same statement. "Don't make me say anything else," he begged with a grin...
...Realists. In their efforts to keep the good will of French West Africa, the French have sent down much more than money. They have also exported a dedicated group of civil servants and army men. Headed by the soldier-doctor General Pierre Richet, a small team of 25 doctors and 1,200 nurses and technicians move constantly about in mobile medical units, ridding the countryside of sleeping sickness, leprosy, syphilis, crippling yaws and blinding trachoma. In some areas sleeping sickness once afflicted as many as 80% to 97% of the population, killed off one in five of its victims. Today...
...tending the children-Dorothy, Jimmy, Douglas, Harry, Freddy. In the birth certificates, Yvette listed the children's father as "unknown." The neighbors viewed the strange union with Gallic tolerance and were closemouthed with strangers. Three times in the 14 years French police came, looking for "a missing American soldier." Each time Yvette hid Wayne in a cubbyhole under the stairs. Back in Chillicothe, Mo., Wayne's father gradually gave up hope of ever seeing him again; in 1950 Wayne's wife Ruth got a divorce on the grounds of desertion, and disappeared from town...
...subject to review, and it may be drastically reduced. Said sturdy Yvette: "I've only one wish -that he be released soon so that we can get married and lead a normal life, taking the children out for walks on Sundays. Who knows? President Eisenhower lost one soldier-he may have gained four more, my four sons...
...aide by General Cummings (Raymond Massey) during the invasion of a Pacific island. The general coddles Hearn as he would a favorite son-and tries to sting home his belief that power is everything, that the way to achieve power is by instilling fear. "I make [a soldier] more afraid of me than he is of the enemy," he boasts. "It makes him fight a little harder...