Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complaints about cramped, three-person seats exasperated him. "New Haven passengers don't like multiple-unit cars," he sneered. "They want a bed with each seat...
...Belknap Press, a unit of the University Press, last week received the fourteenth annual Carey-Thomas Award for the planning and "successful launching of "The Poems of Emily Dickenson," a three volume work edited by Thomas H. Johnson...
...carried the half-day hospital principle to its logical conclusion: a compact space at the west end of the fourth floor is a day hospital by day and a night hospital by night. Its 15 beds serve day-hospital patients in much the same way as the Allan unit. But at 4:30 p.m. the day patients leave. At 5:30 the night patients begin to arrive from their jobs-six men, nine women. These are patients for whom Dr. Moll considers it especially important to get away from a family situation which is causing or aggravating an emotional upset...
Nameless Mission. West Pointer Merrill got command of an esoteric collection of U.S. infantrymen. They formed the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), whose parenthetical appendage proved symbolic. Culled from jungle-trained troops throughout the Pacific Theater, including a full battalion of Guadalcanal veterans (already thoroughly infected with malaria), the 3,000 men volunteered for a nameless "dangerous and hazardous mission...
Randolph shone most brightly in a recklessly courageous military career: he jumped into Yugoslavia as a parachutist with a Commando unit, also served in North Africa and Italy, reached the rank of major. He covered the Korean war for the Daily Telegraph, managed to rub most of his fellow correspondents the wrong way until the day he returned from a patrol action with a half-dollar-sized shrapnel hole in his shin and coolly dictated a dispatch...