Word: field
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pendergast and Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses Annenberg for income-tax evasion. He was looking around for other victims in a field rich with game, when Franklin Roosevelt elevated him to the place left vacant by the death of the only Catholic on the Supreme Court, crusty old Pierce Butler...
...Lattre; the air forces (Uniair) under Britain's Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb; and the naval forces (Uniair) under France's Vice Admiral Robert Jaujard, chief flag officer for Western Union. Standing over all, coordinating Uniforce's three services, is Britain's indomitable, irascible Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein...
Once, during the battle of the Colmar pocket, De Lattre's superior, U.S. General Jacob Devers, put the XXI U.S. Army Corps under his command (other U.S. officers were outraged by this move). Throughout the fighting, Devers kept up a stream of suggestions to De Lattre via field telephone. Finally De Lattre exploded: "If you want me to run this battle, leave me alone. If you want to run it, come here and take over." Devers, who respects De Lattre as a first-rate soldier, smiled: "I was wondering how soon he would say that...
...Elysee Palace in Paris, Sisavang Vong, King of the Laotians, and French President Vincent Auriol signed a treaty establishing Laos as an independent nation within the French Union. French soldiers, who henceforth would be required to salute the Laotian flag, should have little trouble recognizing it: a red field bearing a three-headed white elephant topped by an umbrella...
Throughout the night the poorly organized rebels, supported by tanks and field guns, mounted attack after attack on the palace, the police station and the army airport. The town's best residential sections, Tivoli and Santa Clara, were squeezed in a triangle formed by the military academy on the north, the airbase on the south and Fort Guardia de Honor on the east. Tanks clattered through as street fighters kept up a running battle from doorway to doorway, the military bases exchanged artillery fire and government planes zoomed down to bomb tanks and strafe street fighters. The quaking government...