Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once he had made his mind up, the President ordered John Steelman to stay away; Mr. Steelman went on a hunting trip. Then the President made Clifford, Krug and Clark the members-and the only members-of his GHQ. He set out to take and keep the offensive...
...White House GHQ, with everything staked on bringing Lewis to his knees, planned an even stricter embargo. They wheeled up other heavy weapons: an all-out Presidential speech, the threat of another fine, the sending of troops to guard the mines...
...composition," they had to write an original piece on Retrospectin!! the Past Year Since the Termination of War (almost all of the aspirants praised democracy). Asked to identify such newsworthy designations as GHQ, Bikini, UNRRA, etc. on the vocabulary test, all but ten got GHQ. One thought that Bikini was "the place where the American fleet was crushed by Japanese forces"; three listed UNRRA as the capital of Turkey...
There is little chance of a talent shortage at Notre Dame, with its magic football name and its many devoted alumni. Notre Dame's supply system is larger but looser than most other U.S. colleges'. GHQ at South Bend gets constant reports on good prospects (twelve Notre Dame grads now coach pro clubs, 150 are at colleges, 600 at high and prep schools). In the off season, Leahy and six assistant coaches make a swing of 48 states as guest speakers at smokers and gymnasium get-togethers. They know what to do when a likely young fullback says...
Kremlin Service. Into GHQ Palgunov's overseas staff pours a daily torrent: full texts of speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, Government handouts, technical and business reports, verbatim pickups from A.P., U.P., the New York Times. They need not bother to slant their stuff; Moscow takes care of that. But neither Moscow's " big-circulation tour-page dailies, like Pravda and Izvestia, nor any other Soviet paper prints much more foreign news than many small-town U.S. dailies...