Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Resigning Game. Premier Pibul thought this an excellent suggestion-and appointed Simple Soldier Sarit to his Cabinet as Defense Minister. Then he ordered all Cabinet ministers to forsake their commercial interests. Marshal Sarit and some of his supporters resigned both their political posts and-in theory at least-their positions in private enterprises. General Phao resigned from his various directorships, but held firmly to his position as police chief...
...does not make it easier to get things done, but harder. To justify their jobs, bureaucrats proliferate their duties. One intrepid Italian insists that he had to fill out pounds of forms, in triplicate, for the files of nine different government offices, just to build a house. An Italian soldier, wounded in 1943 and certified in 1946 as 50% disabled, finally got on the pension rolls last month (with no retroactive pay). A businessman who filed a tax refund claim six years ago received the acknowledgment last week; he does not expect the refund for years. People who years...
...there was no wind, or too many rocks, or not enough water. Whether a ship was a two-or three-decker, was "manned by 500 seasoned seamen or 500 raw, pressed men" was of no account. The damned thing was a ship-and the sooner it behaved like a soldier, the better...
...Soldier Eisenhower's studious bent recently led him to consider, then turn down, an offer from a big Eastern school to become a teacher-on the offer's own merits, not because the alternative would embarrass his father or the Army. He is determined to make the Army his career. Says he: "I'm an infantry officer one thousand percent...
...Russians were trying to put on a show in Syria, it was a show of correct innocence. "Not a single Soviet soldier, apart from the military attache, has been or is now in Syria,'' said Moscow radio, and to make the story more credible, T-34 tanks were withdrawn from conspicuous posts on the road to Damascus. Western correspondents suddenly found the offices of Syrian political and military leaders more accessible than in years, as if to prove all the earlier headlines untrue. The Syrian government, worried by the abrupt ups and downs of its currency, sought...