Word: troops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woodsman became bolder, his sorties changed from mere reconnaissance missions to raids in force. The commando warfare was brand-new to the British and confounding to the French. A Rogers raid against Ticonderoga in December 1757 was typical of his methods. In weather that would have clogged ordinary troop movements, Rogers led 150 men through the untracked forest, ranged them about the fort, and, when the French refused to stir outside, slaughtered their cattle and burned their wood supplies, leaving a receipt for what he had destroyed...
...morning ceremonies in the Tercentenary Theatre will start at 9:15 with the arrival of Commonwealth governor Foster Furcolo, escorted by a mounted troop of National Lancers. The governor will then lead an impressive delegation of political officials, included in the traditional parade through the Yard...
Only 29, Dave King bumped around in his teens as an electrician's and plumber's helper. He played in troop shows for the R.A.F., parlayed a 1954 one-shot on the BBC's Television Music Hall into his own show, became Britain's top-rated comedian. An even more striking one-shot: his decision to ask his agent to bring some TV films to Perry Como, who as producer of Berle's show was brooding about how to fill Berle's summer air time. Assured of employment until October...
...fellow patriots like actors on a stage-officers strutting by, each with "a finger to his mustache as if to the trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself was an actor in the play-without knowing it. Men, argues French Author Giono, can achieve real ends only by being theatrically inspired-and cold, cunning leaders take care to pile on theater aplenty...
...heavy, obsolete M-1 rifle with the officially approved, fast-firing M-14, to replace the World War I .30-cal. machine gun with the new M60, or to come up with a tank to match the Russian T-54 now in the field. "For $5 billion worth of troop equipment," cracked one division commander last month, "I'd trade Huntsville away in a minute...