Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chrysler's limited production "300"). Both Premiere and Capri have automatic transmission and power steering as standard equipment; the Premiere adds power window controls and a device that moves the driver's seat in any of four directions. Optional: power brakes, an air-conditioning unit...
...Safeguard of Character. In the course of its inquiries the committee came across a lot of evidence to confirm what every experienced serviceman and ex-serviceman knows: that pride in one's unit is the cement, whether at base, in the line, or in P.W. camps of Korea. "Many servicemen exhibited pride in themselves and their units," the committee reported, discussing the one encouraging portent of the P.W. camps. "This was particularly pronounced where they had belonged to the same unit for years. They stood by one another . . . If a soldier were sick, his fellow soldiers took care...
Then came World War II, and Carmi enlisted in a British transport unit. In North Africa, his outfit was attached to Montgomery's Eighth Army. One day at El Alamein, Carmi was collecting debris left by Rommel's retreat when he came across a bulky, grey object. It proved to be a piano, encased in a rock-hard coating of plaster, its innards too sand-clogged to sound...
...headed upwards and rammed a wing into the nose of Plane 9 overhead. There was a deafening explosion. The wreckage of what had been Plane 8 fell into a pine forest below. Plane 9 managed to stay on course for almost a minute after the collision. Then its tail unit fell off, and the second C-119 tumbled downward and burst into flames...
During World War II, a retreating German unit dynamited the town of St. Dié, in Lorraine. One of the buildings blown up had worn a plaque which told of something that few Americans, North or South, know about. It was there, on April 25, 1507, that a group of scholars and poets ran off on their press a book named Cosmographiae Introductio. In it, for the first time, appeared the name of America. Wrote the author in Latin: "I see no reason why we should not call it America, that is to say, land of Americus, for Americus...