Word: basil
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...Died. Basil Liddell Hart, 74, eminent British military writer whose radical theory of tank warfare was adopted by the Germans in their blitzkrieg through France; of a stroke; in Medmenham, England. A World War I veteran, Liddell Hart predicted that armor would be the key to conflicts of the future, and in the period between wars fought vainly to have his "expanding torrent" method of attack adopted by the British army. History, of course, proved him correct; according to Rommel, the British would have avoided most of their early defeats in World War II had they listened to Liddell Hart...
...California liberals, he failed to join fellow bishops in opposing efforts to repeal the state's fair-housing laws in 1964. The Immaculate Heart nuns were barred from archdiocesan schools because Mclntyre disapproved of their internal reforms. While Mclntyre was saying midnight Mass last Christmas in St. Basil's Church on Wilshire Boulevard, a group of Mexican-Americans called Catolicos por la Raza (Catholics for the People) staged a demonstration outside to protest the building's alleged construction cost of $3,000,000. Mclntyre later likened the demonstrators to "the rabble" that crucified Christ...