Word: artilleryman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing happened. He reeled in quickly, the plug streaking like a toy torpedo. For an hour he worked over a 100-yd. stretch of water like a master artilleryman laying down a barrage pattern. Nothing happened. But Oscar Flanders, finest surf caster on Martha's Vineyard, knew better than to expect an easy strike from a striped bass-a silver-green fighter with a flippant challenge that turns men into lifelong, zealous pursuers...
...post in Korea four years ago as Camp St. Barbara and the report that artillerymen there are calling themselves "St. Barbara's Own."* "This thing seems to be spreading almost like 'Kilroy was here,' " said P.O.A.U.'s Lowell this week, and then dropped an artilleryman's salvo into the camp of Senator John Kennedy. "If we had a Catholic President, would we have this kind of thing rubbed in our faces all the time...
Giovanni Urbani, 58, was appointed by Pope John to succeed him as Patriarch of Venice-the first native Venetian to be made patriarch in 150 years. He served as an artilleryman in World War I, though he was noted more for praising the Lord than passing the ammunition, and he tirelessly organized seminars and study groups for the soldiers. Later, Urbani became top national ecclesiastical adviser to the Catholic Action movement, traveled all over Italy organizing parish priests in a grass-roots light against Communism. In 1955 he was made Bishop of Verona, with the personal title of archbishop...
...academic exams for Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts. But once entered, he was convinced by exhibitions of Cezanne and Picasso that academicism was not for him, went home to work on his own. Within a year, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Artist Soulages was in uniform as an artilleryman, after the fall of France worked as a farm laborer...
Hypnos was a nom de guerre before it became a nom de plume. Rene Char, a combat artilleryman in the defeated French armies of 1940, took to the hills above his village. There, as Hypnos, he led a band of guerrillas so bravely that later he received a commendation from General Eisenhower. His simple patriotism that puts country above home and family is expressed in one of his aphorisms: "Be married and not married to your house," which expresses what 17th century Cavalier Poet Richard Lovelace said more fancifully: "I could not love thee, dear, so much...