Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, with the British army as intermediary, the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem negotiated the surrender with representatives of the Arab Higher Committee. A battalion of the Suffolk Regiment of the British army came up to enforce the surrender terms which had been radioed to the beleaguered Jews. When Arabs attacked, British soldiers crouched in a circle around the house, fired shots over the Arabs' heads. When the Jews surrendered, the British searched them; several of the Zionist militia-women had hidden ammunition in their blouses...
...Reginald Weir's entry was tactfully worded. He hoped that it would be accepted, but he would not make an issue of it if it weren't. At Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory last week, he played and won his first round match (6-4, 6-2) in the National Indoor Tennis Championship. Even though he was soundly beaten (6-1, 6-1) by top-seeded Billy Talbert in the second round, Dr. Weir felt that he had won a victory. For the first time in history, a Negro had played in a U.S. Lawn Tennis Association...
From the British cruisers Devonshire and Sheffield, marines and troops of the Gloucestershire Regiment fanned out through British Honduras' malaria swamps and forests. They prepared to repel the "irresponsible elements" that were threatening, the British Foreign Office said, to invade from Guatemala (TIME, March...
...calls in Bogota. An urgent order flashed from Whitehall: proceed without delay to British Honduras. Taking Sir William aboard at historic Cartagena, the Sheffield raced northwest for Belize. Over from Jamaica, by a second order, steamed the 9,850-ton cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire with a detachment of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The occasion for this showing of the flag: "Possible incidents staged by irresponsible elements in neighboring Guatemala...
...certainly depend on Yale, with the strong chance of meeting Army and Princeton squads as well. The Elis last year stole all the American rugby glory by being invited to Bermuda, where they defeated two Royal Navy teams, 9 to 0 and 16 to 3, tied the Gloucestershire Regiment squad, and lost their final game to the Bermuda A.A. by virtue of one free-kick which the Bermudans placed between the goalpost to win 3 to 0. To match this, Harvard must look back to the 1943-44 season when a team, half of them freshmen who had never seen...