Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Question before the military: Can an officer who broke, whatever the treatment he got, be allowed to go back to command of troops or even to a desk job? The professionals' answer: no. The Pentagon intends to move slowly and cautiously in these cases, seeking a rule that will be fair to individuals who broke under duress and at the same time preserve the integrity of the services. The civilian heads of the military establishments have still to make up their minds what should be done. The military men have reached their own decision...
...hear the Queen speak his words. He was home in bed working on a speech of his own, a far more orotund affair (see INTERNATIONAL) than the brief, ten-minute address he had given his sovereign. Both speeches reflected the same Churchillian hope: to keep the Tory government in command for its full term. "We were elected [in 1951] for a five-year period under what is called the Quinquennial Act," Churchill told the House of Commons that afternoon, rolling his tongue happily over the long, Latinate word. As outlined by the Queen, the government plans for the next year...
...master's ticket for running a merchant ship into a known minefield during World War II, and whom rumor accuses of some greater, vaguer crime. By day he haunts the shipping offices of Marseille in his greasy old captain's uniform, cringing and wheedling for another command. By night he gets roaring drunk and tries to check his conscience and his failure at the local brothel...
Radcliffe correctly answered that George Washington had taken command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, (Minnesota said Lexington) but could name only three of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Asked what was written on the slate in the song "School Days," they incorrectly replied "I love you so." (Answer: "I love...
...Russia at Stalingrad in the 1943 debacle of the German Sixth Army, was finally coming home. After ten years of coddled denazification in Moscow, during which he helped organize some 100,000 fellow captives into a Free German army, Von Paulus is now presumably a good enough Communist to command an East German army...