Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overwhelming topic, touching and yet overriding all others, would be the relation between the Big Three themselves-the countries as well as the men. Franklin Roosevelt had gained some fame at previous Big Three meetings as the mediator between the other two; at Yalta he had been made chairman of the conference in recognition of this talent. Harry Truman, in no position to fill such a role, seemed determined that all three of the Big Three should talk and bargain on an equal footing. He specifically avoided a preliminary Big Two meeting with Churchill; he did not want...
Fifty-One Landings. The Eighth's chief claim to fame lay perhaps in its 51 amphibious landings (on two dozen islands) since Dec. 26, when MacArthur declared the Leyte campaign strategically closed and turned over the mop-up (which has produced 26,000 dead Japs) to the Eighth. The "Amphibious Eighth" staged the Visayan campaign, which MacArthur called "a model of what a light but aggressive command can accomplish in rapid exploitation." Then it went on to Sulu and Mindanao, where the grateful Sultan of Sulu and Moro chiefs presented to Eichelberger several handsome kris and bolo knives (which...
...extraordinary heroism" by leading his men in repelling three heavy Jap counterattacks, and by refusing evacuation though he was twice wounded. His own men know Bob Herwig only as an exceptional officer. They have all but forgotten what U.S. civilians would probably regard as his greatest claim to fame: he is also the husband of Kathleen Winsor, author of the sex-best-seller Forever Amber...
...newsreels, or heard his pleasantly deep voice over the radio. The U.S. liked what it saw-a modest man, natural in everything he did; a kindly, common-sense man; a warrior who remembered that he was a citizen; a son of the Middle-West, unhardened by war, unspoiled by fame...
...Creator. How was it that a 23-year-old soldier from New Mexico, who had never harmed a flea in his life, could achieve such fame-and such authority? A paragraph of Up Front casts some light on the mystery. After five years in the Army, Bill Mauldin fully understands the infantryman, and he has a sharp eye, a good ear and a facile pen for transmitting his understanding. He wrote...