Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Johnson had been a soldier in Europe, but in Minden the whites had figured he was a "bad nigger"; he got drunk and was uppity. Three weeks ago, a white woman said she saw him and a young Negro named Albert Harris trying to get into her house."She shined a light and they ran away. The sheriff picked them up and took them to the red brick Webster Parish jail. Along about dusk a couple of nights' later he let them go because nobody had filed any charges against them...
Spectators and delegates in the Paris arena last week watched him at work and saw a trained soldier-not a robot, but a quick-witted, iron-nerved fighter, attentive to the word from his superior, who reacts in disciplined grooves of mental habit...
...program will make VA easily the biggest dispenser of mass mental medicine in history. Army & Navy doctors are not greatly surprised; 63% of the medical discharges from the armed services in the U.S. were NP (neuropsychiatric) cases. In addition, many a soldier who stoically endured the war has cracked up since...
...comedy of youth and age it is an enduring delight; it is also a fascinating, vividly contemporary study of leadership. Shaw has examined the complexities of cynicism and benevolence, megalomania and selflessness, intuitiveness and hard reason, passive resistance and calm brutality, which combined to make the soldier-statesman. His portrait shows Caesar to be a man as far beyond mere knowledgeability as a Hitler or a Stalin-and considerably more civilized...
...course of his four days around the University, the Crimson football mentor held an informal pigskin clinic with five guest coaches, and concluded his whirlwind visit by watching an informal workout at Soldier's Field yesterday afternoon at which 40 gridiron aspirants were present...