Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon proved that he had few peers in battle. During the allied counteroffensive in France at the time of the Battle of the Bulge, Ware, then a lieutenant colonel, assembled a small squad of men and personally led the attack on a German fortification that had held up his battalion's advance. For that act he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for gallantry...
...reasons are many: some have chafed too long under arbitrary authoritarian discipline; others have succumbed to love of a woman. Still others have, in the old-fashioned phrase, simply lost their faith. While the break with the ministry is still an emotionally harrowing experience for most, this growing battalion of unfrocked clerics are finding it easier to marry, raise a family and get a decent job. The ex-priests are no longer the pariahs of Christianity...
From the U.S. to Sweden to Taiwan, many nations are exploring the potential of CBW, and Soviet scientists are perhaps the busiest in the field. The Russian army has chemical-war fare specialists down to the battalion level, and the Russians probably provided the lethal nerve gas used by the Egyptians in Yemen last year...
Oppenheimer's military judgment is hard to fault. A Marine reserve officer since World War II, when he led a battalion ashore at Okinawa, he was called up for Korea, returned last May from a combat tour in Viet Nam, and last month pinned on his brigadier general's stars...
Despite his 5-ft. 7-in., 132-lb. size, he be came at 23 the youngest battalion commander in the Corps. Reluctantly mustered out at war's end, he began running his family's Kansas City interests (an auto agency, small loan and real-estate operations). Not until 1953, when his stepfather, Jules Stein, founder of MCA, asked Oppenheimer to buy him land and cattle as a tax shelter, did the ex-Marine find a new field to conquer...