Word: dille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Winston Churchill uttered his defiant "We shall fight on the beaches . . . in the fields and in the streets," he knew the man to back his words with armed men. It was eagle-faced, gentle-eyed General Sir John Greer Dill, recalled from France, who had become Chief of the Imperial General Staff...
Ulsterman Dill, a man (said other British officers) who was always "buttoned up," refitted Britain's tattered Army, carried on with silent, machinelike precision as C.I.G.S. Then when he reached-retirement age (60), he applied his rule to himself, and accepted a less important duty in India...
Company I--Pitchers: Hoekstra and Dill; catcher: Gould; infielders: Donovan, Berra, Fisher, Davis and Bloom; outfielders: Armstrong, Arsulich, Droomers and Delph...
...Other Irishmen among Britain's top commanders: Field Marshal Sir John G. Dill, General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck, Field Marshal Sir Alan F. Brooke...
...trying to hide a watermelon under his shirt but having some difficulty, because he was already loaded with a jar of cheese spread, several ears of corn, two jars of skin lotion, some parts for an automobile brake, a can of shoe polish, a dill pickle, and a rearview mirror...