Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From their hill positions, Cebu's militia, commanded by genial, unflustered Colonel Irvine C. Scudder, whisked off to beach positions, pecked at the Jap. Somewhere the little M.P.s in their rumpled blue uniforms were fighting him too. But Cebu, only 20 miles wide, vulnerable in every spot to fire from the ships, never had a chance. The Jap was in the Visayan...
Balding, white-crested General Burns now 56, started as a Field Artillery officer, has been in Ordnance most of the time since 1910. In World War I he was an explosives expert, made such a name as an administrator that he has been in executive jobs ever since. A genial Irishman who shoots golf in the yes. he can get along with almost anybody-also very important in Washington...
...things that genial, low-voiced Dr. Barata has lately done for President Vargas is to forbid all foreign-language broadcasts in Brazil and to put an end to the use by Brazilian stations of all Axis news services. One of his worries has been clandestine radio communication between Axis agents on the Brazilian coast and German submarines at sea. A lesser worry has been short-wave propaganda from Berlin- telling Brazilians they are being taken into a war that is already lost...
Under him three men will steer the Army of the future : Air Force - Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap" for happy) Arnold, white-thatched, genial, 55, veteran flyer, ex-juvenile fiction writer; Ground Force -slender, studious Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, 58; Supply -soft-spoken, hard-driving Major General (likely soon to be Lieut. General) Brehon Somervell...
Questioned Monday night concerning the coming meet, the genial Finn admitted that Dartmouth "is really a strong, well-balanced team, with strong runners. Our boys will have to improve plenty this coming week to beat such an outfit...