Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tank battalion, which he commanded, rolled into action in Normandy in July 1944, "Abe" Abrams showed the feel and flair of a born combat man. Leading the sweep of General George Patton's Third Army across Europe, he would lean from his Sherman tank, chomping on a huge cigar, and rally his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams: "I like to get out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans and we can fight by ourselves." When the 101st Airborne was surrounded at the Battle of the Bulge...
...Undaunted, Auric, who lives in the shadow of the Elysées Palace, marched across the street to have a word with an influential neighbor-General Charles de Gaulle. "We understood each other perfectly," says Auric, chomping on his cigar. "I just said to him, 'General, I need money.' Then I explained the situation, and everything went off very well...
...about three years of research and writing to produce this book. It reads as if it were not written at all but dictated, Napoleon style, at top speed to at least two secretaries at once, and the resulting manuscript corrected with a glass in one hand, a cigar in the other, and no place to hold the blue pencil. Even the title is a piece of mindless sensationalism: Berlin was not a battle, let alone the last...
Then, he took a few puffs on his pungent six-inch cigar, and made some sharp comments about the general performance of the press. He particularly castigated the press in California for "not knowing what was going on in my primary campaign...
...Desert Strike worth such costs? General Paul D. Adams, whose Army-Air Force STRIKE Command is conducting the exercise, is certain that it is. Puffing on a cigar in his air-conditioned trailer at Needles, Calif., Adams, 57, who bears a striking resemblance to the original "Desert Fox," German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, explained: "There are lots of things we try to accomplish in an exercise like this. It's the first time we've been able to get a proper training area for the armored divisions for ten or twelve years now-where they will encounter...