Word: cromwellians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose unstatesmanlike didos made a circus of municipal affairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. McNair once dismissed all violators of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act ("They had committed no crime," he said, "except competing in the rotten liquor business with Governor Pinchot"), failed in a Cromwellian move to dissolve a newly elected city council, resigned in a huff when the council balked at confirming his appointees...
...fierce battle that was joined when Allied troops hit the beach, there was also the renewal of a historic personal conflict. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Cromwellian conqueror of North Africa, was in command of all the Allied ground forces. Across from him was the canny, brilliant German field marshal he had met and beaten in North Africa. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the "Old Fox," was readying his forces (under Germany's Supreme Commander, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt) to strike back again...
...brilliant, pipe-smoking deputy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, on airmen like Britain's Leigh-Mallory and the U.S.'s "Tooey" Spaatz, on seamen like Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. And a special weight pressed on two of their top subordinates: Cromwellian General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, and Lincolnesque Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, A.U.S...
...Cromwellian, unrhetorical General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery characteristically addressed his troops in England...
First, Russian revolution, in contradistinction to the German, Great French, Cromwellian and others, did not turn to external conquests, but remained a strictly Russian, internal affair. Second, since the middle of the nineteen thirties Communism, Atheism, and generally the destructive phase of the Revolution was over. All these became practically dead. Like many other revolutions, when their destructive phase is ended, Russian revolution revived and continued the living trends that existed before the revolution...