Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Todd in Uniform. Though Author Ferber indulges in no idle name-dropping, people like the Lunts, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Noel Coward and George Kaufman troop through the pages of her book. In her one stage appearance in The Royal Family, a savagely funny take-off of the Barrymores, which she wrote with Kaufman, Louis Calhern accidentally dropped her on her bottom as he carried her up a stage staircase. In Paris during the last days of World War II, she met Mike Todd decked out in what appeared to be a porter's uniform decorated with countless rows of ribbons...
...pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such targets as tanks, gun emplacements, troop concentrations). The Navy has the 8-mile Asroc and the 11-mile Astor (both ship-launched torpedoes), the 65-mile Talos (a ship-launched, 1,850-m.p.h. antiaircraft and shore-bombardment weapon), the not-yet-operational 25-mile Subroc (a submarine-launched antisubmarine rocket), and the Navy and Air Force...
...Catholicism, the Church of England may have been lured into slumber by the comforts of establishment, but it is still nonetheless an ineradicable part of the landscape: England without its "C. of E." is as unthinkable as Rome without a Pope. Seldom as Anglicans attend church services, they proudly troop through their historic cathedrals and abbeys on vacations and holidays, and the dazzling new cathedral at Coventry is one of the nation's best-attended show places...
...troop thin-out in Central Europe. The U.S. points out that Soviet soldiers would withdraw only a few hundred miles to their own territory while U.S. infantry would, in effect, have to be pulled back clear across the Atlantic. If the U.S. were to consider this idea at all, it would insist on compensation for the Soviet tactical advantage: the U.S. would want three or four Russian soldiers withdrawn for every...
...Yard to the Tercentenary Theatre under the direction of the University Marshal, J. Hampden Robb '21. Others in the procession, besides Faculty and officers of the University, candidates for degrees and alumni, will include governor Peabody '42, who will arrive in a horse and buggy escorted by a troop of National Lancers, Mayor Collins of Boston, a representative of Cambridge's Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, and other high officials of city and state...