Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...command of the commanding general, Sixth Army, each of you is hereby taken into custody," barked Captain Walter R. Leahy. "You are further advised that court-martial charges have been preferred against you ..." When the captain finished reading the charges, three husky MPs stepped up to the young men and marched them off to a weapons carrier. Minutes later, the forbidding gates of the prison compound at Fort Baker clanked shut behind them...
...Going Down" and the floor number. It also doubles as a warning device. If a passenger forgets to press his floor button as soon as he steps into the elevator, the voice reminds him: "Press your floor button, please." The passenger who holds open the doors gets a quick command: "Release the doors, please." Cost of the voice...
...green"-a reference to the three green lights on the instrument panel showing that the landing gear is down and locked. If an air training officer wants a cadet to do something on the double, he says: "One hundred percent with afterburner." For no reason at all, he may command a cadet: "Report your position and give your next checkpoint." Or he may order a cadet: "Stand tall, reach for the sky and look proud; you're an air cadet, Mister." But the competitive spirit of the new academy is probably best portrayed by the answer to "What...
...friend of mine," said Ike. "He knows that when we have spoken as soldier to soldier, I have never said a word that is not true." Earnestly, Eisenhower went on. "I have had enough of war," he said, and he would never have left retirement to take command of NATO if he had not believed it was an organization for peace...
Strained Conscience. Treason there was, but the traitor was not Dreyfus. As a Jew, he made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially...