Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been dragging on for six years. It started as a slow guerrilla nuisance, with none of the dramatic shock of the Red attack in Korea, and at first the free world, including France herself, looked on it as a dubious cause. The Indo-Chinese Reds, led by a wily, veteran Communist, Ho Chi Minh, pretended with some success to be patriotic nationalists, rising against the yoke of French imperialism. In France itself, Communists and fellow travelers loudly berated "the dirty war," sneered at their countrymen who returned from the Indo-China theater, and sabotaged arms shipments to the French forces...
...From now on," cried De Lattre to his demoralized troops, "you will be led!" He was 62, a veteran of two World Wars and a colonial war (in North Africa), eight times wounded, 46 times decorated, the pre-NATO commander of West Europe's common defense-but the next 30 days in Indo-China carried his career to its pinnacle...
...buttoned uniform, walked slowly through the train to see that all was in order. His train was not a big one: a baggage car and three coaches with 100-odd passengers. And there were two baskets of fruit he was supposed to deliver at the Asch station. For a veteran Communist who had spent years studying Marxism, the run was not much to look forward to. Beb often complained to friends that nothing exciting ever happened in his life...
...short of her 17th birthday, defeated Santa Monica's Beverly Baker, 9-7, 6-4. ¶Professional Golfer Betsy Rawls, 23, of Austin, Texas, the Women's National Open, with a 72-hole total score of 293; in Atlanta. In third place with a 299: veteran Professional Mildred ("Babe") Zaharias, who only last month helped cure Winner Rawls of a fast-developing slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster...
...graduate of New York University and an Air Corps veteran, Feinberg was in good academic standing at the end of his second year in June, according to Law School officials. Last year he lived at 53 Wendell Street...