Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheered the role of the foot soldier to the point of oversimplification. Actually he takes nothing away from the other arms; his peep-sight view merely assumes that their work had already been done. None of these sketches is exhaustive, but every one is readable, informal history that few armchair tacticians would wish to miss and few professional soldiers could fail to learn from. What will keep Eleven Generals and many a plain reader apart is its inflationary price...
...Armchair. The man in tweeds did not confine his operations to the young. He captivated Meta Berger, well-to-do widow of Victor Berger, first Socialist Congressman. Plump, motherly, highly respected Mrs. Berger was entranced by the eloquence of handsome, charming Eugene Dennis. He persuaded her to go to Russia, and she returned piping the glories of the Soviet Union. Her country home became a second home for Dennis, who settled comfortably into the late Congressman Berger's old armchair. Meta Berger died in 1944, still not disabused...
British Field Marshal Montgomery fought and won his battles by the book. His own accounts of how he did it are written for soldiers, military historians and armchair strategists. Normandy to the Baltic was Monty's cool, professional account of his considerable part in engineering the defeat of the German armies on the Continent. Now he has backtracked in time and completed his story of World War II with El Alamein to the River Sangro, a brief, coldly competent blueprint of his strategy in North Africa, Sicily and Italy...
Dick would convene the gentlemen of the press in his Dillon cubicle, settle back in his wooden armchair, fold his hands across his paunch, cross those match sticks be uses for legs, and give them the lowdown, drawling half from the aide of his mouth and half through his nose...
King George VI, 48, sat in an armchair at a formal investiture, while 300 people filed by him in the ballroom of Buckingham Palace. It was his first full state ceremony since his ailing leg began acting up last November...