Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adviser, with the rank of field marshal in the Philippine army. Foreseeing the coming world conflict, MacArthur raced to build up the Philippine army with a singlemindedness that earned him the mocking title "Napoleon of Luzon" from U.S. detractors -until the war came and with it MacArthur's finest hours...
...nurse, though suffering from an unfeebled voice that sounds as if it has been produced by an excess of cotton, is quite wonderfully aged and querulous; and I would be unfeeling indeed if I failed to mention Theodore Kazanoff's First Guard, the very image of New York's Finest, with a wife and two kids at home...
While generally proud of his personnel, Admiral Anderson held few illusions, once observed: "Twenty-five percent of the crew is the very finest. A very small percentage, maybe two, five, or ten, are moral bums. In between, we have untested adolescents on whom we must rely to run our complicated weapons systems. Some officers are also delayed adolescents...
...life at his breathtaking, Rhine-commanding villa south of Bonn. "Since 1937," he explained, "I have been living at Rhondorf, where I can only get home by climbing up the path. It is more than 50 steps." Another advantage of the hillside location: the villa - although one of the finest in the whole Rhine Valley - was not appropriated by Occupation officers after World War II, "because," suspects der Alte, "they could not drive up to the door in their cars...
G.B.S. was right. During two decades (1876-94) of intermittently covering London concert halls and opera houses, he emerged as the finest music critic in the English language. And over the years, his acerbic judgments have worn remarkably well-a consequence, explained Shaw, of the fact that "G.B.S. never commits himself on a musical subject until he knows at least six times as much about it as you do." In a fascinating and previously uncollected selection of Shavian criticism' (How to Become a Musical Critic; Hill & Wang; $5), readers can once more watch G.B.S. committing himself - informed, passionate...