Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idle chitchat from a girl he met at a dance. She was maid for a woman employed by the Teamsters; under the woman's bed was a stack of their records. Anxious to inspect any Teamster file, Kennedy got the corporal to continue dating the maid (although the soldier complained that she was no bargain), arranged to have a staff member accompany them and the maid's girl friend on a double date. Capping the evening at the Teamster employee's home, the corporal kept the girls amused while Kennedy's investigator feigned illness, staggered...
Sounded out informally, Nate Twining refused, looked instead toward retirement. Asked by President Eisenhower to become chairman. Soldier Twining accepted...
...eyes grim, Field Marshal Sir John Harding flew into London last week with the air of a soldier preparing to straighten out some muddled civilian thinking. For days, London had been bustling hopefully over the sudden offer of EOKA's chieftain Colonel George Grivas to "suspend" operations if Britain would free and negotiate with the exiled Archbishop Makarios. Macmillan's Cabinet had met in special session; there was talk of bringing the archbishop to some neutral city, perhaps Paris. The government announced it would make a statement on Cyprus and asked the Greek chargeé d'affaires...
Pierre-Henri Simon, a left-wing Roman Catholic intellectual, recently stirred Paris with a controversial book on Algeria, Contre la Torture. Simon reproduces affidavits by torture victims, statements by French priests and extracts of journals of French army and police officers, and he quotes a letter from a soldier: "On the afternoon of Dec. 3 some gendarmes invited some soldiers to watch tortures of two Arabs arrested the night before. The first torture consisted in suspending the two men, entirely nude, by the feet, hands tied behind their backs, and plunging their heads into a pail of water for long...
...Wisconsin M.D., declares to be responsible for more than 50% of all the sickness in the U.S. Schindler came to this conclusion by trial and error, and admits once ordering the removal of a gall bladder from a woman whose pains actually ceased only with the return of her soldier son. Psychosomatic medicine receives some strikingly visceral tributes from Schindler's subheads, e.g., "The Colon Is the Mirror of the Mind," "From the Emotions, Too, Stem Most Belches...