Sentence examples for serving as a war from inspiring English sources

After serving as a war correspondent in World War II, Hewitt joined CBS in 1948, and he directed its first televised evening news broadcast, with Douglas Edwards (1948 62).

But aside from writing "The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard" and several other works, touring in Egypt, lecturing in America, serving as a war correspondent in Sudan, supervising a hospital in Cape Town during the Boer War and standing for Parliament, what was Arthur Conan Doyle doing before he brought his great detective back from the grave?

Margaret Salinger tells us that her father made a point of looking up Hemingway, who was serving as a war correspondent in liberated Paris, and showing him a copy of one of his early war stories ("Last Day of the Last Furlough"), so perhaps the affinity was no accident.

Serving as a war correspondent for the British newspaper News Chronicle during the Spanish Civil War, Koestler was imprisoned by the fascists, an experience he recounted in Spanish Testament (1937).

WASHINGTON -- A badly fractured Supreme Court, with six justices writing opinions, reopened the possibility on Wednesday that a large cross serving as a war memorial in a remote part of the Mojave Desert may be permitted to remain there.

He served as a war economist during World War II and was the leading economist in the Labour government (1946 47).

The house, as far as he was concerned, would now serve as a war room; people called it the Bunker.

From then on, the idea that our chairman had served as a war doctor loomed large in our collective imaginations.

Now, the mine that served as a war chest for the rebels supplies the jeweller Tiffany's.

He served as a war correspondent in 1914 15 and, after the United States entered World War I in 1917, as a combat officer.

During World War II, he was a member of the Army Air Corps and served as a war correspondent in Iwo Jima, Guam, Saipan and Japan.