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Word: soldierly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who did not, held together the band from the rose garden as they crossed the placid Potomac in the 82° afternoon sun to the shining white memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. There, in fresh graves flanking the tomb of World War I's Unknown Soldier, they were to bury two unknown comrades of the last two wars. Close overhead came Air Force jet fighters and bombers, the lead wingman of each formation dramatically missing to represent those who do not come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Adventure of War | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Ambassador Howard Jones issued his regrets that an American "paid soldier of fortune" had become involved in the fighting, and the Indonesians seemed willing to let it go at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Man from Florida | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Said the De Gaulle voice: 'I'm prepared to take over the government of France if Premier Pflimlin permits me to. I would only do so under peaceable conditions as an old soldier of France.' Then he asked: 'Who am I talking to?' We explained that it was station WMGM in New York City. Said De Gaulle: 'Oh, the motion picture company?'* Then the voice screamed: 'Everybody knows the best station in New York is WINS! Vive la France!' We knew then that it was a hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viva la WINS! | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Willi Heinrich is a 37-year-old German novelist whose specialty is the look, smell and sound of military defeat. He came by his competence honestly and bitterly as an infantry soldier in a fearfully mauled German division that bit deep into Russia, withdrew its remnants in broken retreat. Five wounds, Heinrich's personal quota, do not necessarily make a war novelist, but his first book, The Cross of Iron (TIME, April 23, 1956), proved that no contemporary novelist was better than he at the grisly business of describing the meat grinder of infantry combat. Crack of Doom, another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soldiers Must Die | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Sergeant Kolodzi the war has reached a harrowing personal climax. He is a soldier of the Wehrmacht, fighting on his home ground where his mother and his girl still live, where his father, killed by partisans, is buried. Kolodzi knows the war is finished, that the smart thing to do is to desert, get his mother and girl to safety before the Russians drive into his home town. But Kolodzi is also a first-rate soldier with a feeling of loyalty to his fellows. When he hears the opening roar of the massive Russian artillery barrage, he leaves the arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soldiers Must Die | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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