Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes streaked across the sunny sky over Berlin, a Soviet officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail...
...general grinned and got aboard...
...many ways, Fontainebleau functioned like a real headquarters. Its brisk brass was efficiently sectioned off into Unilion (Montgomery's central command), Uniterre (land command under French General de Lattre de Tassigny), Unimer (sea command under French Vice Admiral Jaujard), and Uniair (air command under Britain's Air Marshal Sir James Robb). The only trouble was that their forces were mostly shadow forces...
Germany and Austria, and the overseas territories, including war-torn Indo-China. Stern, tireless General de Lattre de Tassigny had struggled hard to reorganize the French army and instill into it a new self-respect. The fact remained that at home it still trained with wooden guns and that even with overseas forces it could put in the field only five to nine ill-equipped combat divisions. France had about 1,000 planes, all of them worthless for combat service...
...Schulman's considered opinion last week became the basis of a heated debate in U.N.'s high councils. Among the fanciers of Sam's sandwiches is Hector McNeil, British delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Last week McNeil rose in the Assembly. "I am informed," he said, "that Mr. Gromyko and his colleagues live in a luxurious well-walled dwelling on Long Island ... I plead with Mr. Gromyko ... to escape from these . . . luxurious fastnesses, to go to a delicatessen, to a drugstore on a bus or a subway, where the normal hard-working . . . man and woman meet...