Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, Oct. 31--Featherweight Champion Hogan Kid Bassey, a stubby warrior from Nigeria, dropped shifty Carmelo Costa twice on the way to an unanimous decision tonight in a non-title 10-rounder at Madison Square Garden. Bassey weighed 127, Costa...
Greatest of the Merina kings was Andrianampoinimerina ("The Prince desired by the Merina"), who ruled from 1787 until 1810. Riding in state about his kingdom in a purple-draped palanquin, he divided the country up into well-administered provinces, organized a corps of professional civil servants. His warrior son Radama I-a stern disciplinarian who would warn his soldiers, "Better to advance and risk being killed by the enemy than to retreat and be sure of being burned alive"-carried on his work. He imported British soldiers to train his army, welcomed the schools of French and British missionaries...
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...