Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Core. To bolster Acheson, the U.S.'s highest brass marched up to Capitol Hill. Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley, flanked by the Navy's Admiral Denfeld and the Air Force's General Hoyt Vandenberg, spoke for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Said Missouri-born Omar Bradley, whose vivid prose is the match of Acheson's: "We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternatively press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the [North Atlantic Treaty] powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution has no apology. It is born of fear and selfishness...
When the town ignored them, they dragged nail kegs to the spot where the bench had originally reposed, and perched on them like defiant octopuses clinging to piling. The chief of police threatened to confiscate the nail kegs. That was more than the old men could take. They demanded, and finally got, a special municipal election to decide whether the bench should be restored...
...Viking Chief Eric Kiersgaard was glad of a chance to stand up, even under the hot sun; he had developed abscesses from sitting on the Hugin's wooden thwarts. The big red-and-white-striped sail had helped; but the crew had worked so hard at the oars that they had worn out the seats of their Wagnerian costumes, borrowed from Copenhagen's Royal Opera Company...
Died. Rear Admiral Frederic Robert Harris, U.S. Navy (ret.), 74, onetime Navy dock chief, World War II designer of the world's largest floating drydocks, which followed the Pacific fleet and made repairs possible in combat areas; in Man-lattan...
...slang, and there is an Omo chief in the book who suffers from "a slight guilt complex." But, by and large, this is hot, strong stuff, and not since Elinor Glyn and Ethel M. Dell has a writer put in her thumb and pulled out the sort of plum this pie is full of (e.g., "He had cut her open with a sword, but she was too proud to let him see the bleeding...