Word: warriorism
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...burial of the unknown servicemen from World War II and Korea. Meeting an aging vet from the Philippine Scouts, he said, "I served out there with them five years.'' Each time he saw an empty right sleeve hidden in a pocket, he reached for the warrior's left hand and held it firmly. One Medalist said, "It's my pleasure, Mr. President,'' and Ike shot back warmly. "Well, it's my honor...
...Westminster College, Missouri, where Sir Winston Churchill in 1946 focused the thoughts and fears of the world into a memorable phrase -"Iron Curtain" -the Old Warrior's cousin, Irish Critic Sir Shane Leslie, passed on a few newsy nubbles about his famed relative: "You know, his father never thought that Winston had the brains for college. Winston got his education as a subaltern in the campaigns of the India frontier. He took with him to India three books, Macaulay's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a work by the Irish historian...
...Actually, our choices balance each other quite well," said Sue. "Rajastan is part of the old prince-ruled India, and Madras was 'British India' and is more modern. In Rajastan, we lived with the Thakur of Bissau, a nobleman of old Jaipur state and a member of the Rajput warrior caste, and we shot quail and partridge on weekends. Then we moved to the south, where they are more non-violent. Instead of shooting on weekends, we went birdwatching with our Brahmin editor friends...
...them to agree to help him set up a coalition government to rule until the scheduled general election that he hopes to hold in 1959. But it is a sign of Nepal's condition that in spite of himself, Mahendra, King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor, continues to govern by palace rule as Prime Minister, Cabinet and Parliament rolled into...
...warrior shall be withdrawn until the battle is won," proclaimed the Peking People's Daily. "All must join battle ardently and courageously; we must persevere with the doggedness of revolutionaries." Into battle, thus exhorted, went the Chinese millions to wage war on the lowly sparrow...