Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white-tie stag dinner at the White House for some 60 guests, including a dozen or so oilmen and bankers-and not including newsmen. There followed a heavy, split-second schedule for Saud; every moment away from business he spent in side trips, e.g., a wreath for the Unknown Soldier, a tour of the U.S. Naval Academy, a basketball game...
...French could get in the Middle East." Then, half-joking and still referring to the low esteem in which the Middle East holds Great Britain and France, Dulles added: "If I were an American boy, as you term it, I'd rather not have a French and British soldier beside me, one on my right and one on my left." Lifted out of context, so that it appeared that Dulles was reflecting on the soldierly qualities of the U.S. allies, the remark was sped to Europe, where it caused a middle-sized explosion (DULLES INSULTS OUR FORCES, headlined...
...Though M. & M. had never heard of such insurance being written before by a private company, it lost no time protecting the international force. Within 24 hours it had arranged for Continental Casualty Co. to write a $25,000 accidental-death-and-dismemberment insurance policy for each U.N. soldier, plus $1,900,000 worth of war-risk insurance on each of three Swiss airline transports...
...first new English version in 50 years of Díaz' famed history of Cortés' conquest of Mexico. The new translation is so smooth that the story gains as a narrative but lacks something of the awkward dignity with which the proud old soldier must have recalled his years of service under Cortés. The book inevitably evokes Herodotus-another old soldier who lived to remember and tell-as Díaz begins: "I am an old man of 84 and have lost my sight and hearing. It is my fortune to have no other...
...touch of that truly wonderful story; it is a brilliant work of historical synthesis, written with an eloquence that is Spanish and an aphoristic bite that is French. For part of the way the two books travel together, since both chronicle the Cortés conquest. The 16th century soldier and the 20th century scholar tell much the same story-the fantastic saga of Hernán Cortés, a vagabond student from Salamanca who became one of the most famous conquerors in history...