Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sang Pancho Villa's ragged army in one of the most famous of all Latin American soldier songs. U.S. soldiers, better heeled than the cockroach, gave ear, took up the marijuana habit. Later they smoked the reefers in Panama, and when World War II took them to bases in Ecuador, the hop habit they brought was the answer to a medicine man's prayers...
Lebensraum. In New Bedford, Mass., Mrs. Eugene Lavigne, tired of house hunting, got a welcome letter from her soldier husband in Germany: "Come on over and bring the kids. I have a five-room house, two maids and a St. Bernard...
...veiled the sun. George looked up nervously. There was delay while elaborate security preparations were completed (no flower-throwing, no rooftop rubbering). Then, while thousands cheered and cannon boomed 101-gun salutes, the King drove through the streets, laid a wreath on the tomb of Greece's Unknown Soldier, attended a Te Deum Mass...
...victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press...
...other hand, we have Sergeant Smith, an ordinary soldier with an eighth-grade education. The Army court-martial found him guilty of giving several unjust punishments which he had been ordered to give and of giving one beating in which he took the initiative. . . . His punishment was three years in prison...