Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran of World War II, he landed at Inchon in September 1950, and has been in Korea ever since. Nervously twirling his green fatigue cap, Old Soldier Fitzpatrick explained: "I just like the Army, so I stayed. Here in Korea I was helping and learning at the same time. Besides, all the friends I have are in the Army...
...pick or lifting a shovel, professional diggers discover scientific treasures. Browsing through the modest collections of amateur "rock hounds," they have found many a rare fossil, often misclassified and almost as obscure as if it were still buried in prehistoric shale. Last winter, hoping for just such a find, veteran Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson took time out from a lecture tour to visit the private museum of Alonzo Wesley Hancock, a retired Oregon postman...
...Persian Gulf, by the shore of the Neutral Zone of Kuwait, lies a battered old World War II LST, a displaced veteran of the invasion of Leyte. For three years it has served as a forward outpost of one of the oil industry's most famous field bosses, James MacPherson, 62, as he hunted for oil ashore. At a cost of $30 million, MacPherson's long-futile quest became the most expensive in Middle East history. After five dry holes, oilmen all over the Middle East joked: "Four more holes will give Mac a nine-hole golf course...
Indivisible Halves. Davies, a onetime California Standard vice president, knew that MacPherson, another Socal veteran, was the right man to do his drilling. MacPherson was already running Aramco's operations, had the biggest oil job in the Middle East. But MacPherson, feeling hemmed in by remote-control corporate rule, took Old Friend Davies' offer. English-born MacPherson first got to know the Middle East when he served in General Allenby's Palestine army in World War I. Meanwhile Pacific Western Oil's* J. Paul Getty bought up the other half of the Neutral Zone...
...novelist's duty to tell a story, but it is risky to retell one. Warren Eyster, 28, a Navy veteran of World War II, performs his duty fairly well in Far from the Customary Skies, a first novel about the island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific as seen from a destroyer. The trouble is that Author Eyster's book trails in the wake of half a dozen naval novels published since 1945 and never sets a clear course...