Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish. After long deliberation, the Navy Board approved Medals of Honor for four marines. Three had died while winning theirs; the fourth went to 1st Lieut. Henry Alfred Commuiskey of Hattiesburg, Miss. In the White House rose garden one sunshiny day last week, 24-year-old Lieut. Commiskey, greying veteran of more than seven years in the corps, stood at attention while the President read the citation: After the Inchon landing, armed only with a .45-cal. pistol, Marine Commiskey charged two enemy machine-gun emplacements near Seoul and killed seven North Koreans in hand-to-hand fighting. Unscathed then...
...William Hill was Niagara's best-known riverman, a veteran of three rides through the rapids below the falls in a barrel. He was credited with recovering 177 bodies cast up by the river. Before he died in 1942, he told his son William Jr.: "Look after the river, Red." Red Hill worked at odd jobs, did some tourist guiding, shot the rapids himself in 1945 and 1948, gradually developed an irresistible hankering to go over the falls from the top. If he did it and lived, he would be the fourth person in history to accomplish the feat...
...Punch in the Nose. It was at Mme. Lebrun's in 1949 that Claire, a lanky, plain girl of 18, met Father Luciano Negrini, an English-speaking Italian priest, 41 years old. A veteran of 15 years as a missionary in China, Father Negrini had been sent by his bishop to the U.S. to win friends and funds for the mission in Hupeh. He won so close a friend in Claire that last September U.S. ecclesiastical authorities sent him back to Italy under charges of "bad conduct...
Actually, young Cocozza lived in a fairly pleasant working-class neighborhood, where his parents, Antonio and Maria Cocozza, had a six-room house and brought up their only child with pampering indulgence. The elder Cocozza, a decorated World War I combat veteran on a total disability pension, is a semi-invalid; his wife worked as a seamstress in the Army quartermaster depot. Freddy, as everyone called their son, was a spoiled, reckless kid: one of his teachers still remembers him with a shudder as "one of the biggest bums that ever came into the public-school system...
Even in a story with scores of human actors, Ericson and Lockhart stand out as sharp, deeply drawn characters. Ericson, an easygoing veteran of the merchant service, hardens slowly into a killer as cold as a shark. He does not lose his humanity, but it shrinks up inside him like a dried pea. Lockhart is a richer and more appealing nature. He hardens in authority but he does not shrink. He broadens and deepens in his knowledge of men, and at the end, he not only can bear the weight of war, but can shoulder a home-base love affair...