Word: bywords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military biographer, Captain Harry Butcher, says that it was a byword among American officers that 'Eisenhower is the best general the British have.' Eisenhower got this reputation by acceding to a British war plan calculated to allow the British commander, Field Marshal Montgomery, to achieve all of the decisive breakthroughs ... It was he who called off General Bradley's victorious armies when they were across the Elbe, thus reserving for Russia the enormous political advantage of capturing Berlin . . . Eisenhower it was, also, who turned General Patton from his unchecked advance upon Prague and let the capital...
...became known as "Waxey" to his friends and the cops, took on the name of "Waxey Gordon" as he advanced through stickups, slugging, dope and murder charges into the big time. With Prohibition, Waxey muscled into a string of big New Jersey breweries, made his adopted name a byword in the world of Al Capone, "Legs" Diamond and Dutch Schultz, and wallowed in a life of $10 silk underwear and Pierce-Arrows...
...Theory and practice" will be the byword for George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry. After is return from an annual trip to Los Alsmos, Kistiakowsky will do physical-chemical research into the nature of explosions and enzymes...
...Rock 'em and soek 'em!" That is the newest byword on Soldiers Field, a carry-over from Coach Lloyd Jordan's days at Pittsburgh. It can often be heard when the team comes out of its Muddle, and it is an expression that will probably come in for a good deal of use around the Stadium this fall...
...Rock 'em and sock 'em!" That is the newest byword on Soldiers Field, a carry-over from Coach Lloyd Jordan's days at Pittsburgh. It can often he heard when the team comes out of its huddle, and it is an expression that will probably come in for a good deal of use around the Stadium this fall...