Word: tripler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corvette. While Morgan's hobby was spending millions for old masters. Alexander's chief delight is to get out in the country, climb onto a tractor to harrow or mow a field. He likes to polish his own shoes, buys his suits off the rack at Tripler...
...been moved (mostly by combat cargo plane) from Korea to southern Japan; 9,860 had been flown on to general hospitals near Osaka and Tokyo. But less than half stayed there; most of the rest* went winging across the Pacific. They had a stopover at the Army's Tripler Hospital in Hawaii for a thorough checkup and a couple of nights of vibrationless sleep, and were soon back...
When he lunched at the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club-after a cruise in a picket boat past the rusting hulks of the battleship Arizona* and the target ship Utah-he spoke with great seriousness of his hope for world peace. At the Army's Tripler General Hospital, where he made a surprise visit to men wounded in the Korean war, his usual geniality returned. He joked with a soldier who had lost an eye: Well, the President said, you can be a banker and use your glass eye to show sympathy to people who want loans...