Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worker in Colonel Platt's terminal. At Red Cross suggestion, A/1C Cole Y. Bell, trying to make it to an injured brother's bedside at Fort Campbell, Ky., tried to telephone the Fifth Air Force inspector general's office, with no luck. At that point a veteran sergeant suggested: "Why don't you call General Burns? If anyone can help you, he can. I used to serve under him, and he's all right." Swallowing hard, Airman Bell found the home telephone number of Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns. When a housekeeper answered, Bell asked...
Grey -haired, cigar -chewing Bobby Burns, bemedaled 31-year Air Force veteran, heard Bell out, called the terminal to verify his story, then rang up Tachikawa tower. To the Pacific Express, already a hundred miles out, sparked a cryptic radio message: return to base. At first the pilot protested, but Tachikawa transmitted an unmilitary postscript: "You'd better do it, sir, or the general says he will have your plane brought back under air escort...
...seized the radio station, pulled all switches at the telephone exchange, and, lobbing a mortar shell through a back wall of the royal palace, mowed down the King and members of the royal household as they stumbled in confusion out the front door. Premier Nuri asSaid, cunning veteran of two generations of Arab politics and unflinching friend of the West escaped from his house disguised as a woman-only to be hunted to death and dragged dead through the streets the next day. At noon of the first day, Kassem joined Aref and set up the headquarters of the triumphant...
Mike Sheridan is the other veteran defenseman, and Lentz will probably start Dave Grannis from Minnesota to round out the position and give the team added size which is crucial for blocking...
...Canadian Navy won 3-0 as Ken Batchelor, a veteran of the Canadian profootball league, scored the only touchdown...