Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boss, Lieut. General William H. Tunner, 53, who commanded the historic airlifts over the Hump in World War II and to Berlin and Korea. Most of Tunner's 483 planes are obsolescent relics of the propeller age. The bulk of them-291 cargo-carrying C124 Globemasters and 163 troop-lifting C-118s and C121 Super Constellations-are seven to twelve years old, are so short-ranged that they rely on vulnerable island refueling stops on long hops. If Wake Island, Kwajalein and Eniwetok were atomized, MATS would be hard put to deliver as much as a can of Spam...
...managed to break through the tight security, though, Eisenhower made a roaring hit with the Argentine public. Riding with Frondizi at a fast clip down the stately Avenue St. Martin, he insisted that the automobiles slow down, and objected when the crowd thickened and his escorts, a mounted troop of grenadiers dressed in Napoleonic uniforms, moved their horses around his car for protection. Waving the guardsmen aside, Ike greeted the dense crowds with a grin, and got a roar of welcome in return-a remarkable salute from the usually reserved Argentine public. The subdued chant of "Peron! Peron!" was drowned...
...Willie!" They embarked in June 1898, bound for Siboney, Cuba. By his account, it was the third notable amphibious operation in U.S. history. (First two: Washington crossing the Delaware and the landing at Vera Cruz during the Mexican War.) Since the troop transports were commercially chartered, the skipper could choose his own disembarkation point, which ranged up to a half-mile offshore. The horses and mules panicked, with the result that the Rough Riders rode in name only. The first quasi action of Post's outfit was to rush up and relieve the Rough Riders who had got themselves...
...Siegmund's furious outbursts, but it was also wonderfully expressive in the quieter waters of the first act's tenderly lyrical Winterstuerme, wichen dem Wonnemond. Vickers received stirring if somewhat uneven support from Sopranos Aase Nordmo Loevberg as Sieglinde, Birgit Nilsson as Bruennhilde, and a whole troop of excellent Valkyries, but he was plainly the star of the evening. Soprano Nilsson: "I hope Vickers will be for me what Melchior was to Flagstad...
This, reported Pravda, brought "very stormy applause." What better way to proclaim peaceful intentions on the eve of Khrushchev's trip to India, Burma and Indonesia? The basic motive of the troop cut, cried Khrushchev, "is a lofty humanitarian ideal inherent in our forward-looking concept of life, of a Socialist society...