Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stabilized New Hampshire's shaky finances, started a new system of state services (unemployment insurance, old-age benefits) that to some of his old farmer friends smelled suspiciously like the New Deal. Elected Senator, he went on to Washington in 1937 to wage a long and persistent guerrilla fight against the Senate's overwhelming New Deal majority. "They always spoke of me as a radical or a liberal in my own state," said Bridges at the time. "In Washington they call me a conservative...
...Pierre Juin, inspector-general of the French army, had been dispatched to Washington to plead France's case. The French were frankly alarmed. General de Lattre de Tassigny, the leader on whom France, and France's friends, had counted, was out of the battle (see below). The guerrilla warfare the French had been fighting since 1946 had already cost more casualties than those suffered by the U.S. in Korea-including the equivalent of three entire classes from St. Cyr, France's West Point, and ten sons of French generals. It had also cost at least as many...
...Mountain (Hal Wallis; Paramount) harks back to the most persistent historic figure in recent horse opera: General William Clarke Quantrell, the Rebel guerrilla. This time, in Technicolor, Alan Ladd foils the greedy designs that the script lays to Quantrell: a scheme for carving out his own empire in the West...
Graves Registration's job is grim, difficult and dangerous. Sometimes the teams have followed the fighting so closely that they have had to fight themselves; their men have been killed and wounded, some by guerrilla bullets, some by mines...
What licked the Japs in North Burma? The British like to think that in great part it was the jungle work of His Majesty's guerrilla genius, Major General Orde C. Wingate, who did such a good job of mauling supply lines that the Japanese later died on the vine. In Back to Mandalay, Lowell Thomas concedes that Wingate was a genius, but he strongly implies that it was the U.S. Army Air Forces which showed Wingate how to do his job. Back to Mandalay is Thomas' story of how a crack team of U.S. airmen, in effect...