Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill might become a casualty, refused to give his permission and the Prime Minister threatened to ship as a crew member. King George personally settled that one by telling Churchill that he would go along himself to lead the landing troops, if the Prime Minister persisted. That ended the argument...
Geniuses & Gadflies. Crusade in Europe should also be close to the final word on the Montgomery and Patton controversies, if not on the Battle of the Bulge. Patiently and logically, in terms of command and the necessities of logistics, Ike knocks down Monty's argument in favor of a single ground commander in Europe (Monty wanted the job) and a single punch against the Ruhr and Berlin (again by Monty) instead of a broad crossing of the Rhine. The same logic and logistics dispose of Patton's claim that, given the men & supplies he needed, he could have...
...black painted granite building which had been the Japanese War Ministry, on a hill behind the Emperor's palace. Eleven nations were represented on the Allied tribunal. * The trial cost $9,000,000, used up 100 tons of paper. Shorthand writers took down nearly 10 million words of argument and testimony. During the trial two defendants died; one, who began acting queerly, was sent to a mental hospital...
...Tennessee's Coach Bob Neyland, the game has become a "rat race." It is now possible for football specialists to leave college without ever having made a tackle, recovered an enemy fumble, or intercepted a pass. How do you pick All-Americas from such half-players? The best argument for free substitutions was that it gave more kids a chance to get into the game, and earn their letter...
Although these views closely matched those of the Saltonstall Committee, O'Reilly said that the lack of argument surprised him. "I was expecting more than developed," he stated, "but this thing wasn't railroaded." O'Reilly said that most board members had not reached Boston until shortly before the meeting and had not time to talk with each other about the memorial...