Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Al Kelley of Brown indicated last night that he may start his second unit against the Crimson next Saturday because of injuries in his regular squad...
...World War II the British, trying to shuck off some of their worldwide obligations, sought to leave behind a Palestine that would in effect be a single federal economic unit with two divisions: a Jewish state and a larger Arab one. By that time the Jews had narrowed the Arabs' population lead to two to one, and by their industry and Western talents had made themselves Palestine's senior partner. Their young men had served bravely with the British and won Britain's obligation and sympathy. When Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin then tried to hold them down...
...good performances. Oskar Werner, a blond and proud Nordic youth, comes off very well indeed because he has little to say, and no script-writer to louse up his sincerity. Everyone else--particularly Gary Merrill and Richard Basehart--acts in the best tradition of a class B film unit on location in Europe for the first time. This means lots of gutsy tough guys swimming icy Rhines, capturing Germans two-fisted, and helping motherly nuns rebuild their nunneries. The photography and Mr. Litvak's roman candles and firecrackers are very effective...
...inextricably linked with his relation to society. As a consequence, Moslems frequently upbraid Christianity for not disciplining and controlling Western civilization. Christians must impress on Islam, says Cragg, that "the Christian understanding of how man is put to rights is that it happens personally and through faith. . . . Thus the unit of Christianity [is] not society but persons in society . . . The Gospel of grace does not suppose that men are perfectible...
...liked the army in peacetime, and he likes it even less in war. He is no hero, but he is something even better: an intelligent man who does his duty superlatively well. His instinctive dislike of Hitler and his works makes him no less the friend of his artillery unit commander, who stubbornly insists that the Fuhrer is infallible. When a martinet from the rear comes to take over the troop, Asch has a field day that a G.I. of any nationality can appreciate. It is the old story of the parade-ground perfectionist who simply cannot grasp the fact...