Word: veteran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fighting to save this hell hole." Perhaps Reporter Johnston didn't realize that, in a battle area, G.I.s are apt to brush off or fliply answer a question they consider too personal or too demanding. But he got a sounder answer from a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. "I'll tell you what I'm fighting for," he said. "I'm fighting for my life." So was the U.S.; so was the free world...
Among the new recruits in the U.S. Army last week was a Hawaiian of Japanese descent who, as he enlisted, was as awed and quiet as any other rookie of 19. But Wesley T. Shirai was already a veteran of one of the century's major horrors. On Aug. 6, 1945, a boy of 14, he was walking along a street in Hiroshima when the atom bomb went off; the right side of his body, which faced the atom flash, still bears its scars...
...better than most East Asians, but her voice, unlike California-born Tokyo Rose's, is "strictly un-American." One U.S. officer thought she sounded like a Korean who might have lived in England. And she was nowhere near so effective as either Sally or Rose. A veteran master sergeant complained: "Hell, Tokyo Rose used to entertain you. This babe's just a bore. Now if she'd only play some Benny Goodman or something like that, she'd get some listeners...
...were solid facts behind their fancy. Star's Pride had beaten Lusty Song, driven by Foy Funderburk, in three straight races this season. Discouraged by that kind of record, Owner Hayes had fired Trainer-Driver Funderburk ten days before the race. Driver Del Miller, a 37-year-old veteran, and thus a stripling* by harness racing tradition, was hired on short notice to handle Lusty Song. A good many fans figured that the driver and horse had hardly had time to get acquainted...
Last week Chaplain Chaphe, a veteran of World War II fighting on the Rhine, was in blue pajamas in a Tokyo hospital. He is one of the 70-odd ministers, priests and rabbis now serving with the Army* in Korea, of whom two have already been reported missing or killed in action. Back from a five days' inspection tour of the front, Colonel Ivan L. Bennett, Chief of Chaplains in the Far East Command, summed up the mission of the 175-year-old corps in one of the most difficult campaigns to which it has ministered...