Word: wiley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LIFE OF BILLY YANK (454 pp.)-Bell Irvin Wiley-Bobbs-Merrill...
Destiny may have been more casual in those days, but she was just as determined to give a simple soldier an awful tough time. In The Life of Billy Yank, a brother volume to The Life of Johnny Reb (1943), Historian Bell Irvin Wiley recites the hard facts of daily life in the Union armies-or rather, he lets "Billy Yank" do his own talking, through the letters and other scraps of identity he left lying in his prodigious trail...
...military training didn't bother Billy too much ("Drill, drill, a little more drill. Then drill, and lastly drill. Between drills we drill . . ."), and the discipline was generally not too severe. In battle, Billy proved his salt. He did not have the dash and gallantry of Author Wiley's Johnny Reb. but sometimes he could pull up his coat collar and walk into a hail of bullets "the same as I would go through a storm of hail and wind." He did not go looking for trouble. "The diferance between dyeing today and tomorrow is not much," wrote...
...Asia is the biggest factor today in the lives and future of the American people." Dr. Raymond Wiley Miller, Visiting Lecturer on Business Administration, told reporters yesterday...
...Groton, of Westerley, Rhode-Island and Lowell House; John B. Manning, of Worcester and Winthrop House; Ira H. Peterman, of Yonkers, New York and Dunster House; Costas C. Rodis, of Nashua, New Hampshire and Kirkland House; Ralph F. Scalera, of Midland, Pennsylvania and Winthrop House; and Robert L. Wiley, of St. Paul, Wisconsin and Lowell House...