Word: warriorism
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Deeply religious, Presbyterian Haig knew that God was on his side, but this did not keep him from setting great military store by fortunetellers. Airplanes, tanks and even machine guns struck him as frivolous inventions that no solid warrior need take seriously. Early in 1916 he had shown the kind of war he preferred to fight when at the Somme he lost 60,000 men on the first day of battle. In Flanders Haig bore out the assessment of British Military Historian General J.F.C. Fuller, himself a Flanders veteran: "He lived and worked like a clock; every...
...poker, in war, in life, the doughty warrior had one question to ask: "What chance have I got of winning?" This week, in New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital, shrunk to a shell by cancer, Lieut. General * Claire Chennault, 67, lost...
Appeasement. Frondizi hastily backed down. He declared in a speech that the country wanted "neither old nor new dictators." He agreed to let the navy buy its first aircraft carrier, Britain's 14,000-ton Warrior, and made a "solemn commitment" to purchase new equipment for the air force. He cleared his new judges with the Buenos Aires Bar Association and removed the names of several accused Peronistas...
...Apache Warrior (20th Century-Fox). "Too many Indians . . ."-D.W.T., Runge, Texas...
...time of ancient Troy, were in use until the culture of the Sards was finally smothered by Roman legions in the 3rd century B.C. Often fire-blackened on top. they may have served for signal fires, funeral pyres or simply strong points of repair for the fierce, feuding warrior clans. In the rubble at the base of the towers Sardinian archeologists have found a whole catalogue of a bronze age culture in the form of skillfully made miniature sculptures...