Word: clannishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change by Range. But soon Major General William Kepner's Eighth Fighter Command radically changed bomber operations along the Britain-to-Germany airways. His seasoned combat pilots have made clannish bomber men welcome their fighter escorts. One of the best of the bomber's new friends is a silent, rosy-cheeked Group Commander, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Cummings Jr., who was on Clark Field when the Japs attacked the Philippines, made his way to the Eighth by way of Corregidor, Java and Australia. In some five months, Cummings has led Thunderbolts over Bremen, Cologne, Emden...
...Swamped the small, clannish, secretive book industry, with its 274 firms and 4,000 highly organized, well-informed employes. Said Random House's President Bennett Cerf: "It's unbelievable. It's frightening." Pocket Books, which at 25? apiece sold 5,000,000 copies in 1940, 10,000,000 in 1941, 20,000,000 in 1942, sold 38,000,000 in 1943. Even the ponderous university presses reported sales up 20-30%; in one month (October), sales of the one-volume Columbia Encyclopedia jumped...
During most of the peacetime years Harris was on staff duty in London, rising steadily in the clannish, highly selective "permanent force" of the R.A.F. In these years, and after World War II began, he never hid his views on the potentialities of air power and the stupidities of the older services. He was fond of saying that all the Army wanted in the way of airplanes was something which would eat oats and make noises like a horse. More recently, he has said that the only role of land forces in Europe will be to occupy the Continent after...
...bring about a permanent split in the Japanese people, with the Hawaiian group becoming a sort of separate race," said Withington. "They have always been very clannish, and are the only Orientals in Hawaii who don't mix with the others, and breaking off with the home country won't make them mingle any more. Of course, the tremendous power of ancestor worship may work against this, but I think that the new patriotism is stronger...
Virginia is a story of reconstruction-not the postwar reconstruction of carpetbaggers and night riders, but the 1941-type reconstruction of rich Yankee gentlemen who buy up crumbling Southern estates, restore them to their ante-bellum splendor, are thoroughly snubbed for their pains by clannish, unreconstructed neighbors. The neighbor in this case is Stonewall Elliott (Fred MacMurray), who lost his ancestral home when the bank foreclosed and sold it to a young Manhattan sportsman, Norman Williams (Stirling Hayden). They become two corners of a four-cornered triangle. The other two are Stoney's wandering wife, a man-crazy flibbertigibbet...