Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea and Japan in 1950. In the field, G.I.s found that the bulky garment was too heavy (8 Ibs.) and too long. If a soldier tried to run in the coat, the leggings (which managed to connect the ankles directly with the neck) would trip him. Said one Korea veteran, when asked what he did on the run: "I'd take off the coat and throw it on a truck...
...agents against the word of the seller. He wanted the Narcotics Bureau to hire a photographer to snap pictures of meetings between agents and peddlers to use as evidence. Would Reck assign a photographer to make a test? Gladly, City Editor Reck called in Keith Dennison, 54, his veteran chief photographer...
...that such fervid Democratic opponents of the filibuster as New York's Senator Herbert H. Lehman, Illinois' Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey are now obviously engaged in one. He was not shocked but was irked at Alabama's Democratic Senator Lister Hill, a veteran filibusterer. At one point, Hill, who had held the floor for three days, strolled down the aisle, clapped a hand on Taft's shoulder and called him "my sweet, good friend from Ohio, whose shining virtue is the virtue of integrity." When Hill later began to move toward Taft...
...broken off by the U.N. last autumn. Said one U.N. officer: "I've never seen the Communists so eager." The U.N. bided its time while Mark Clark's headquarters in Tokyo checked strategy with Washington. Finally Lieut. General William K. Harrison, the senior U.N. delegate and weary veteran of past Communist filibusters, sent a letter to North Korea's Nam Il, agreeing once more to talk truce...
...sseldorf, 300 miles to the northwest, modern-minded churchmen of the Ruhr were having better luck with their city's sidewalk architects. To replace the bombed-out St. Rochus Roman Catholic Church, a young Luftwaffe veteran named Paul Schneider-Esleben has designed a building in the form of a three-leaf clover (representing the Trinity). The new structure will be connected to the old bell tower by a path which was once the main aisle of St. Rochus, using the twelve aisle columns (representing the twelve Apostles) as a border...