Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Imam's capital is Sana, an almost impregnable city (pop. 40,000), which had a 20-story building 19 centuries before" New York. There, in the hot morning sun, the Imam sits under the Tree of Justice before the palace gates, a soldier holding a royal umbrella over him while he dispenses direct and parsimonious judgments to his subjects. Most of them accept his word as the Koran's law but, just to be sure, the Imam keeps as hostages 4,000 sons of chieftains and bureaucrats...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, who was a soldier in the first war, and a wartime administrator in the second, will round off the panel by pointing out the potential dangers inherent in any organization representing ex-soldiers...
...popular but undistinguished, appeared in Collier's and Good Housekeeping. In the past three years his writing brought in $250,000, which went to charities. He became the first archbishop to sell a book to Hollywood, when M-G-M decided to film his wartime parable, The Risen Soldier...
...Lichfield case [TIME, Dec. 31] is only the beginning. Keep probing, TIME. If the men accused are guilty let us look to the war crimes trial for our precedent. Who is the more guilty: the soldier who tortures his comrades or the soldier who starves his enemies...
Delighted German spectators watched a crack soccer team from Düsseldorf defeat the British 53rd Division's team. A German in the stands crowed triumphantly to a British soldier: "You don't know what this victory means to Düsseldorf. For the first time we have beaten you at your national game...