Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no parade when the 20th Infantry Battalion of the Marine Corps reserve left Oklahoma City last week. "They're more interested in being with their families the last few hours," explained an officer. Veterans of Oklahoma's veteran 45th National Guard Division, called up last week, were as grave. Said 1st Lieut. Pendelton Woods: "Looks like we might all get in it anyway and I'd rather go with people I know. I wish we'd never got involved in this, but it's too late...
...marines had their own flamethrowers, amphibious tractors, Pershing tanks whose 90-mm. guns were a match for the Reds' Russian-built T-34s. The 1st Division's advance team also had its own air wing-a force of about 200 Corsairs (see The Air War), commanded by veteran Brigadier General Thomas Cushman...
...General Erskine recently finished his tour as commander of the 1st and went off on a military mission to Indo-China. The present division commander is Major General Oliver Prince Smith, a veteran of New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa...
...veteran Warren Austin made a ripsnorting rebuttal. Shaking his forefinger and waving his arms, he disdained any deal or proposal by the aggressors, denounced the Russian for "slander . . . obvious and shameless travesties...
Composer Wickham had rounded up some old friends, retired Met Bass Léon Rothier and the Met's veteran Hansel and Gretel witch, Dorothee Manski, and some new stars, including Soprano Evelyn (The Medium) Keller, to help put her Hex over. Unhappily, she had failed to decide exactly what kind of music they should all sing. To many a mystified listener, Hex sounded like Faust one moment, Friml's Rose Marie another...