Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while buglers blew their loudest and policemen beat up anyone who tried to use a camera. End came near the Peiping garbage dump. There 10,000 people watched the frost-nipped Lu Ju-hsin as he was forced to a kneeling position. Up behind him stepped a snappy Chinese soldier, placed the muzzle of a pistol against the back of the prisoner's head, killed him with a single bullet...
Until that time few reputable witnesses had ever seen the wonders of the Yellow stone. In 1806 John Colter, a private soldier in the Lewis & Clark expedition, came back with stories of hot fountains and pools of yellow, pink and green mud too fantastic to be believed. In 1869 three amateur explorers made a 36-day pack trip into what was already known as "Colter's Hell," came back to report that they were so overwhelmed by what they saw that they would not risk their reputations by describing...
...previous life on earth. Most complicated case was that of a five-year-old who spoke one day to his mother "in great perplexity, saying that he was her husband, and that his grandfather his father, and his grandmother his mother." One boy said he had been a soldier who had died in the ''German War": up to the age of four "he used to play frog-leap and other peculiar games. He playfully walked in military fashion and gave cautions." Mr. Yeats-Brown revisited his old friends Sir Rabindranath Tagore and Sir JagadisBose, botanist famed...
...horrors, without pity or generosity of any kind." Cold facts on Spain's horrors are increasingly hard to get past its censors but in Paris last week arrived United Press's seasoned Madrid correspondent Lester Ziffren, previously an ace coverer of Latin American civil wars. "For every soldier killed in battle in Spain's civil war, three persons-men, women and children -have been murdered behind the lines." declared Mr. Ziffren, making clear that Spaniards on both sides share equal blame as wholesale murderers...
...real name was John Graham of Claverhouse, but the muttering Scottish Covenanters pronounced it "Bluidy Clavers." A gentleman, a hard-bitten soldier, Clavers had come back to Scotland from the Low Countries to see his dying mother, and at her behest stayed on to serve Charles II. His inglorious job was to uphold the unpopular Established Church, put down the dissenting Covenanters with a heavy hand. A misogynist, Clavers was faithful only to his duty. Nearly everyone hated...