Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army dependents arrived to join the Navy wives in roughing it. For high-ranking officers' families, there would be mansions commandeered from the Japanese; for others, apartments. For most of the junior officers and enlisted men there would be Quonset huts, most of them without kitchen or bath. GHQ was ready with pick-up and delivery laundry service and ice delivery for staff officers' families...
Army headquarters in Tokyo put the souvenir business on a bargain-basement basis last week. In the lobby of the Dai Iti Hotel was a conspicuous sign: "War trophies will, be issued here-men must be assigned to GHQ-one sword per man." Somebody with a high regard for accuracy had crossed out the words "men" and had substituted "officers...
While his alarmed subordinates put in a riot call, Editor Wren tried delaying tactics: "Look, I only take orders from my commanding officer, just like you." He had not written the editorial, he said; it came canned from Hearst GHQ. Then call Hearst, demanded the marines, and "we'd like to hear the call." Wren tried, but got only as far as the No. 1 secretary at San Simeon ("Mr. Hearst is too busy to be disturbed"). In the midst of these negotiations, Navy shore patrol men and a police riot squad clumped up the stairs, then went away...
Back in 1941 spruce, precise Lieut. General Delos Carleton Emmons was the top-ranking U.S. airman. He was commanding general of the GHQ Air Force, later headed the Air Force Combat Command...
Monument by Monument. But dust had not freshly settled over the Cassino abbey before the Allies faced another monument. Allied GHQ in Algiers announced that Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer palace, approximately twelve miles north of the Anzio beachhead, "contained a heavy saturation of Nazis." Five days later, Rome announced that Castel Gandolfo had again been bombed...