Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throughout his 22 months as commander of the Eighth Army in Korea he and his U.N. troops had been plagued by "a serious shortage of ammunition" (TIME, March 16). Charges of an ammunition shortage had been made before and brushed off before. Van Fleet's reputation was too solid to brush...
...Korean fighting (as they rarely do), they are most likely to remember the heroic stand of the Gloucesters on the Imjin, when one battalion was almost annihilated. On less spectacular occasions, Commonwealth troops have plugged holes in a crumbling U.N. line. When things go badly they are calm, solid, effective...
...planes, heading north, would welcome arctic bases. But the little that the armed services have already learned from their arctic operations has made one thing clear: conventional construction won't work. Buildings settle unevenly as they melt their way into permafrost (subsoil, some of which has been frozen solid since the ice age). Roads buckle and heave. Runways are soon pockmarked with dangerous chuckholes...
...Tricks. Reynolds owes his sudden success to no flashy artistic tricks, but to a solid originality that has persuaded London critics to tout him as one of the most promising modern painters, young or old, to turn up in a decade. A blond, open-faced Scot, he first learned about art from his father, who had a passion for Cézanne and Turner. By the time young Alan was twelve, he was working in oils; two years later he was on his own, doing odd jobs (gardening, repairing bicycles, working on road gangs) for the money to paint full...
...house in a London suburb, still wears his "maternity coat"-a baggy trench coat-and has no illusions about his painting. He doesn't think he is ready yet for figure work, has deliberately concentrated on landscapes and a low-keyed palette until he feels he has a solid background. "There's no good dithering here and dithering there." says Reynolds. "Versatility is a horrible word. You draw and you brood and you try to get something fundamental. Discipline and restraint are the things that count. That is unless you want an emotional orgy...