Word: combings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the new divisions of 1942 have already been conceived, are close to birth. The process begins when the new division commander (a major general), his assistant and his artillery officer (both brigadiers) are selected. In the next week they must comb over the names of officers they know only from their records, to pick the general staff...
Methods of ambush are important. A wire cable strung across a road at an angle will slide a motorcycle off into the ditch, where the cyclist can be slugged and searched. "Messages may be glued to the soles of the feet. Comb the hair; look between the toes." All kinds of decoys may be used to stop cyclists and staff cars or to make them swerve and crash: a couple of baby carriages covered with sacking, a pair of old auto headlamps, operated on batteries, set in the middle of the road. "To attract the closest attention of enemy...
Personnel Department B's special function was "to comb the world for potential 'Quislings.' " Goebbels, with his fat dossiers on the vulnerabilities of all foreign notables, believed that treason was a surer method than revolution. In Belgium, for instance, Rosenberg's Degrelle movement failed; but Personnel Department B obtained the services of Henri de Man, with his influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable...
...Manhattan last week a tall, lean, 67-year-old Scotsman named R(obert) McCulloch Dick called at the National City Bank, picked up a big bundle of newspapers, hurried to his hotel to comb them word by word. After a sojourn in London he was catching up on five months' back reading of his own paper, the weekly Philippines Free Press. Presently, reading one of his dispatches from London, he was engulfed by gloom because his paper had gone to pot-he had found a typographical error...
...give the new Army energy and brains, to carry out Chief of Staff George C. Marshall's promise to fit men to the jobs, get younger executives, comb the cobs out of the Army's top commands-these were the reasons for shifting 26 generals last week...