Word: ypres
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Died. Tommy Armour, 72, golf's battling Scot, who won all the big tournaments in the 1920s and early '30s; after a long illness; in Larchmont, N.Y. Gassed at Ypres in World War I, Tommy was strong enough by 1920 to win the French Amateur, in 1921 moved to the U.S., where he turned pro and swept his era's top tournaments-the Canadian Open (1927, '30, '34), the U.S. Open (1927), the P.G.A. (1930) and the British Open...
...artillery bombardments have left the three red hills of Con Thien a crater-pocked moonscape. Monsoon rains, a month ahead of their normal mid-October arrival, have churned the outpost into a quagmire reminiscent of Ypres in World War I. Everything must be brought into the outpost by helicopter to a landing zone grimly known as "Death Valley," or over the unpaved road from Cam Lo. Everything rots or mildews. The Marines at Con Thien live on C rations. Because water is scarce, they shave only every other day and can seldom wash...
...Free Hand. At the first Battle of Ypres in 1914, Allenby rallied his demoralized troops by "sheer strength of character" and broke a German attack that seemed certain to win the war. However, it was only in the summer of 1917 that greatness came looking for Allenby. At first, he wanted to turn it down. Assigned to supreme command of the Middle East, he roared indignantly that he was being "degommered"-demoted. But when the Cabinet promised a free hand and heavy reinforcements, he hit Cairo like a sandstorm-a superbly organized sandstorm...
...Sandhurst. They have the British manner, right down to clipped accents, mustaches and swagger sticks. The enlisted men are also right out of Kipling's pages?sturdy Jats and turbaned Sikhs, rawboned Pathans and sinewy Sindhis, volunteers all, whose regimental flags are inscribed with battle names ranging from Ypres and Gallipoli to El Alamein and Monte Cassino and Rangoon...
Last spring, when the U.S. tried one alternative-harmless tear gases-an A.P. reporter latched onto the story, and from the hue and cry that followed, one might have thought that the scene was Ypres and the weapon was that deadly grey-green fog of 1915 called chlorine. In Washington, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara rode out the storm, their protests that the gas was utterly harmless drowned in the fatuous worldwide din of indignation. While not publicly giving way, the U.S. tacitly decided that for the moment even tear gas was too hot to handle in Viet...