Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...columnists and Congressmen who screamed injustice last spring, when U.S. Soldier William S. Girard was turned over to Japanese courts, had reckoned without Judge Yuzo Kawachi of the Maebashi District Court. As the Girard trial went into its third week, Judge Kawachi donned raincoat and rubbers and a peasant's wide-brimmed straw hat, took the court sloshing through mud and drenching rain to the hilltop of the U.S. Army firing range where Girard shot a Japanese woman in the back and killed her while she was scavenging for scrap metal (TIME, May 27 et seq.). Meticulously the judge...
...more than 1 cm. in diameter, it was considered safe to give the subject a full shot of the antibiotic. Only one man had a mild unfavorable reaction to the test itself; of more than 1,300 others, 25 gave a danger-signal reaction. One of these, a soldier suspecting venereal disease, ignored the warning, went to a private physician and demanded penicillin. He got it. Within five minutes he was dead...
...first time since the 101st Airborne Division arrived on Wednesday, paratroopers carried their rifles without bayonets attached. Inside the school building, guards wore fatigues instead of battle dress, and only one soldier escorted the nine Negroes to the door of the school...
...Associated Press reported that another man was bayoneted in the arm when he refused to move out of a soldier...
...fight over his identity. The Herald (of Caernarvon, Wales) proudly claimed him as a Welshman. The Herald (of New York City) declared that he was born in Missouri. Stanley had no wish to confess his Welsh illegitimacy, but even less to tell the world that he was a Confederate soldier turned Unionist and a deserter from the Navy to boot. He made Britain his base, left others to fight out the problem...