Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sergeant Gilbert Georgie Collier, 22, of Tichnor, Ark., who was injured when he and his commanding officer stepped off a cliff in total darkness deep in enemy territory. Collier refused to go back with the rest of the unit, but stuck it out with his commanding officer. They crawled back up the cliff, hid, were ambushed and separated. Collier was wounded, ran out of ammunition, and routed four of the enemy with his bayonet before being rescued. He died at a battalion aid station...
...Corporal Dan D. Schoonover, 19, of Boise, Idaho, an Army engineer who took command of an infantry rifle squad and stood in exposed position, directing fire. Several times he made one-man attacks on enemy bunkers, once with only a pistol and hand grenades. When his unit was relieved, he volunteered to stay on and continue fighting. He was killed by a mortar shell 48 hours after the battle started, but not before he had "personally accounted for hundreds of enemy casualties...
...Parish. Recognizing a tricky legal issue, the judge referred the case to the High Court of Justice on the ground that there had been no legal reinterpretation of mutiny since the last century. Last week, after hearing Sir Hartley argue that the Puszczyk was in reality "a small territorial unit or parish of Poland," and that the seamen had only "revolted from what they regarded as the tyranny of a police state," Lord Goddard, Lord Chief Justice, ordered the prisoners freed. Happily, the Polish community threw a huge coming-out party for the seven, who had established a legal precedent...
Should a House be a social unit--with recreational as well as living and dining facilities? Should a House be an intellectual unit with extensive library facilities and conference rooms for talks with tutors? Or is it possible to maintain a satisfactory combination of both instruction from tutors and what Elliott Perkins '23, master of Lowell House, describes as "The process of the undergraduates educating each other...
...past month, Wilson has had his team working on intricate switching man-to-man defenses. These patterns are similar to a zone defense, but are even more flexible. To operate them successfully, every member of the team must play together as a unit. If one man falls down the defense collapses...