Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marked down as an expert training officer, a fact which cost him his chance for combat duty in World War I. When Eisenhower, years later, suddenly emerged into national prominence, there was some tendency among civilians to regard him as a dashing unknown who had popped up with a brilliant staff performance on army maneuvers. It was not that simple. Through the peacetime interlude Eisenhower had worked hard at home and abroad-most notably as MacArthur's technical adviser in the Philippines. He had kept his eye on his number, acquired as solid a military background...
...Surprises. The opening phase of the invasion had gone well. As might be expected in an operation of such size and complexity, there had been surprises for both sides. One big surprise for the Germans had been the Allied timing on the beaches, a brilliant stroke which had sent in the vanguard of the great flotilla some four hours before the morning high tide which most military thinkers had regarded as necessary for the landing...
...fierce battle that was joined when Allied troops hit the beach, there was also the renewal of a historic personal conflict. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Cromwellian conqueror of North Africa, was in command of all the Allied ground forces. Across from him was the canny, brilliant German field marshal he had met and beaten in North Africa. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the "Old Fox," was readying his forces (under Germany's Supreme Commander, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt) to strike back again...
This encounter can hardly be compared with the brilliant spectacle of a few months later. Mem Hall was crowded to capacity that winter night, for King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was inspecting Harvard and was the center of attention at the gay banquet in his honor...
Cork Trees and Seduction. Count Grandsailles was France's most brilliant statesman. "With the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner the Count would mildly bring out the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, and with the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, he would moderately develop the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner." His chief passion was planting cork trees. But for five years the Count had practised "mutual seduction" with beautiful Solange de Cleda. A horse-lover, he "was always tempted to tap Solange on the buttocks and give her a piece of sugar...