Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former Governor Charles Edison, 54, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison and onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. From the start of his three-year term in 1941, smart, mild-mannered Governor Edison defied Hague more openly than any other governor has dared to. He dented Hague's armor badly, using the old state constitution as his bludgeon. Edison stumped the state, denouncing the inefficient basic law. Before his term was up, he got the people to vote for the submission of a new constitution at the 1944 election...
...weather ruins the rest of October, bogging down armor, grounding planes and aggravating the Allies' already tremendous supply problems, Germany's chances of surviving the winter will look better than at any time since the Normandy breakout. Even so, nobody will hand her a gilt-edged certificate positively guaranteeing that she can fight on into...
...First Army was Bradley's pride & joy after D-day (it is still his favorite). But Bradley had a bigger job cut out for him: combined command of the First and of General Patton's armor-heavy Third, whenever the Third could be broken loose out of Normandy. Hodges was on hand to run the First...
...tactical decisions were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap for the German Seventh Army (TIME, Aug. 28). Hodges ran off these plans without raising his voice and with rare recourse to his spare vocabulary of profanity...
...herself. In the Temple's heyday it averaged $7,000. From the Lord's share she was soon able to build the $3,000,000 Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism. From this seminary each year 200 or more evangelists-to-be were graduated-girt in shining armor and brandishing swords against a capering Satan...