Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need for improving this most basic of all weapons was pointed up by research, which established that during World War II 1) fewer than one out of four front line soldiers fired a rifle in the direction of the enemy, 2) some 10,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition were fired for every enemy soldier wounded. 3) some 50,000 rounds were fired for every enemy killed. The burden of infantry fighting therefore fell upon the skilled, tough soldiers who operated such deadly weapons as automatic rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and mortars. Obviously needed: fewer but better infantrymen equipped...
Some had been three and four days on the road, hiding in the fields by day, dodging Russian checkpoints. Again and again watchers from Austria saw refugees pinned down by Russian rifle fire at the frontier, captured and led away. One Soviet soldier who penetrated 400 yards into Austria in hot pursuit of a refugee was killed by an Austrian guard. Red army tanks shelled frontier bridges...
...families, including Julia Rajk, whose husband Laszlo Rajk had been executed as a Titoist in 1949. They all arrived at the back door of the Yugoslav embassy just in time. As Embassy Secretary Milovnov let them in,a Russian armored car screeched to a halt, and out popped a soldier who sprayed the doorway with his Tommy gun. Nagy & Co. got inside the door safely, but Milovnov crumpled to the ground, dead...
Mother & Son. Stress is ever present everywhere, according to Selye. He sees it in "the soldier who sustains wounds in battle, the mother who worries about her soldier son, the gambler who watches the races . . . the beggar who suffers from hunger and the glutton who overeats . . . the child who scalds himself-and especially the particular cells of the skin over which he spilled the boiling coffee." So far it would seem that Dr. Selye has discovered only the obvious. But then he takes a bold, imaginative leap: "To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach...
...conference with 100 rabbis, Minister Cahane and Scholar Mazar were planning an expedition into the Sinai peninsula to seek evidence that would back up their theory. But the Israeli army was in no mood to wait for the archaeologist's word. Last week a jeep-borne band of soldiers barreled down from their base in the Sinai peninsula to Jebel Musa. There they climbed the 737 steps in the sheer rock to plant the Israeli flag where they were sure that Moses talked to God. At the nearby monastery of St. Catherine they picked the soldier with the best...