Word: brevet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first major mistake in the career of George Armstrong Custer was his promotion to major-general during the Civil War: he flailed through Virginia with a cavalryman's flair that killed as many of his own men as those of the Rebels. After the war, as a brevet brigadier. Custer was assigned to Indian Territory and left part of his troop to canter back to his wife for "home leave." Two of his men were slaughtered en route. His final error occurred on the Little Big Horn, when Custer led more than 200 men to their deaths...
...genetic magic, the Adamses never produced black sheep, though there were times when the family anxiously expected Charles Francis Jr. to baa. Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general. Since no other Adams had ever been a soldier, Charles Francis Sr., Lincoln's Minister to the Court of St. James's, concluded that there was a defect in his son's character. More over, on his return from the war, Charles did not immerse...
...absence from Washington, Johnson has increasingly relied on the Defense Secretary to act as unofficial brevet deputy President. McNamara fills the part so well that the pundits last week were speculating that Johnson might put McNamara in some other strategic post, perhaps the unfilled job as Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development as a base from which to organize and oversee the Great Society's vast new domestic programs...