Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worse than Germany. Lieut. General Barney Giles, new Army Air Force com- mander in the Pacific predicted more bombs for Japan's 148,000 square miles than had fallen on Germany...
...Harmon had been missing for eight weeks-the 17th U.S. air general to become a casualty in World War II-and his fast-growing U.S. Air Force in the Pacific was still without a permanent boss. Last week the Army airmen in the Pacific got one. Lieut. General Barney M. Giles, 52, ranking member of the Army's only set of general twins,* cleared out his desk in the Pentagon Building and went off to what will become the biggest air-combat job left in World...
Capable, good-natured Barney Giles had left one of the most important staff jobs in the Air Forces: deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and Chief of Air Staff. To replace him, General Hap Arnold called in a distinguished combat veteran, Lieut. General Ira Eaker, 49, onetime fighter pilot and literary collaborator of Hap Arnold. Bald, equable Ira Eaker, who had setup the Eighth Air Force in England, battle-tested the Air Forces doctrine of precision daylight bombing, and forged the first close links between the Air Forces and the R.A.F., had been out of the U.S. since February...
...only a Bible, a thesaurus, and a leather-bound pictorial history of the U.S. In rapid order, President Truman had a 45-minute conference with Secretary of State Stettinius, then a 48-minute session with the war leaders: Generals Marshall, Vandegrift and the Air Forces' Barney M. Giles (subbing for "Hap" Arnold); Admiral King; Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal. At noon he broke his first precedent: he went up to Capitol Hill for lunch...
...Thurber's world are never servants one can deal with reasonably. They are agents of the devil, users of abracadabra, alarming in their slightest gesture. "They are here with the reeves," said Delia, his colored maid. "The lawn is full of fletchers," she announced on another occasion. Barney Haller, the Thurber handy man, had "thunder following him like a dog." His language, like Delia's, was from the nether world. "Dis morning bime by I go hunt grotches in de voods...