Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snow. Following the seasonal theme, most everything in the restaurant will change with the solstices and equinoxes: dishes, flowers, waiters' uniforms, trees (which will be uprooted and replaced four times a year). Serving the 450 customers seated at one time will be 25 chefs and bakers and a battalion of 125 cummerbunded captains, waiters, wine stewards, barmen and busboys...
...July 4, 1959 rolled westward from the international dateline, U.S. outposts, embassies and ships at sea broke out the nation's new 49-star flag, signaling Alaska's entrance into the Union. On Guam the 809 Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army, claimed the honor of raising the first 49-star flag in the world-a claim sure to be hotly contested. At 12:01 a.m. E.D.T., the first 49-star flags in the domestic U.S. were unfurled from the U.S. Capitol, and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. At the Capitol arm-weary policemen raised and lowered...
...Belgium (TIME, June 8). Normally. Baudouin would have gone directly from the airport to his Laeken palace, bypassing busy Brussels, with its snarled, honking traffic. Instead, riding in an open limousine, the King made a 15-mile tour of his capital city, where hundreds of police and a battalion of gendarmes were needed to hold back the curious crowds. Flowers showered down on the smiling King, who won cheers by nimbly catching bouquets in midair. Cried a plump Brussels housewife to her neighbor: "It's the American Baudouin...
Neither side would budge. One Red battalion was encamped in a small valley called Xieng Ngeun, twelve miles from the ancient capital city of Luang Prabang, and the only exit from the valley was guarded by two Royal Laotian battalions and a detachment of paratroopers. The other was stationed on the wide Plaine des Jarres in north Laos, surrounded by four heavily armed loyal battalions. The Royal Laos handed ultimatums to the Reds, giving them the choice of surrendering their arms and being integrated, or being wiped out; food supplies were cut off. At Xieng Ngeun, his hungry...
Told of the surrender at Xieng Ngeun, the Red battalion on the Plaine des Jarres promised its own answer at noon the next day. The loyal troops surrounding them gave their future brothers-in-arms food and water, fraternized openly. Vigilance relaxed. And when the loyal troops awoke next morning, they found the Reds had decamped during the night, taking their women and children with them...