Word: cavalrymen
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...General Francisco Franco led an army of Moors and Legionnaires out of Africa to join in the Spanish Civil War that brought him to power. Ever since, lance-bearing, scarlet-robed Moorish cavalrymen have attended the dictator on state occasions. But the rude surge of Moroccan nationalism, threatening to overrun Spanish holdings in North Africa, put the old soldier's loyalty to his Moors under heavy strain...
Pelted with flowers, hailed with cheers and popping firecrackers, the new President of Latin America's biggest nation rode from Tiradentes to Catete Palace along streets guarded by cavalrymen in plumed ceremonial helmets-and also by drab, businesslike tanks, forceful reminders that Brazil was still living under a state of siege. At Catete, Acting President Nereu Ramos took off the green-and-gold sash of office and draped it across the incoming President's breast...
While the Administration may stress production of medium range and intercontinental missiles, it would be dangerous indeed if production of piloted aircraft should be cut. Pilots may someday be as obsolete as cavalrymen, but that day is far in the future. Even Soviet figures show a continued emphasis on fighters and long-range bombers while proceeding with research on missile warfare...
...unit. This unit was soon incorporated in a cavalry regiment, commanded by ex-Cavalry Sergeant Semyon Timoshenko, which became part of a Red cavalry army led by Semyon Budenny, an ex-Cossack. The war unfolded on a 3,000-mile perimeter around central Russia. The Red cavalrymen fought as irregular shock troops, now galloping 400 miles to strike Poland's Pilsudski, now driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing the war to a close. Georgy Zhukov, the barrel-chested, hard-riding kid from Kaluga Province...
...military correspondent for Izvestia, where he learned to find his way safely among the Red army's biggest monsters. He too can tell shocking stories about the secret police-about the porcine Chekist who ravaged a whole Cossack village but lost his own life when attacked by five cavalrymen after killing its last naked, crazed peasant; about the Communist who had the girl who jilted him arrested at her wedding reception, and permitted his most tigerish investigator to rape and shoot...