Word: ander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success, the U.S.S.R.'s Alex, ander P. Morozov (a non-Miltonian) told a UNESCO committee that it was all very simple: "a small group of monopolists" kept most of the world press in chains; "communal ownership" (state monopoly) kept the Russian press free (by which a Russian means faithful to the Party dogma). There ought to be a law, he said, to make the capitalist press behave...
Monty had a long, warm talk with Stalin, was given a round of receptions and reviews. Out "to establish friendly contact with the Soviet Army," he invited its Chief of Staff, Marshal Alex ander M. Vasilevsky, and other ranking Russian officers to visit England next summer. The Russians promptly accepted...
...Said Georgia Tech's wise Bill Alex ander (TIME, Feb. 5): "When colleges allow a promoter or any other noncollegiate operator to book their athletic teams" - as they are booked in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Buffalo's arenas-"they are asking for trouble...
...standing military maxim since Alex ander the Great (356-323 B.C.) has been "Destroy the enemy's leadership." In his principal campaigns Alexander's strategy was based on capturing the enemy's leader. General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck probably had both man and maxim in mind when he opened the Western Desert campaign against the Axis in November. In the most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines...
...situation and decide whether his troops should dig in for the winter pretty soon or try to strike on through, drive the Italians into the Mediterranean before they could poise a counterblow, went the long-nosed, aristocratic Commander in Chief who taught and led the Greek Army: General Alex ander Papagos (paa-paa-gos). Every morning, for two hours at Army Head quarters in Athens, he had conferred intently with Premier General "Little John" Metaxas. His enemies derided General Papagos as "Little John's" Papagei (parrot), overlooking the fact that the relationship between the two men is much like...