Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cyprus to strike at airfields. "I must say that the sooner Egypt sees reason and agrees to temporary international control of the Suez, the less lives will be lost," pronounced General Sir Charles Keightley (rhymes with neatly), C-in-C of the joint Anglo-French operation, from his Cyprus GHQ. The political hope in London and Paris was that airstrikes alone, combined with the Israeli sweep across the Sinai, would persuade Egypt to surrender, or to overthrow Nasser. But the basic military intent was to clear the skies for Anglo-French invasion...
...debate with a priest about faith and heresy. Then, as in a nervous movie, he shifts the scene to a shattered village where hysterical Italians watched a British private thumping out Moonlight Becomes You on a piano in the smoking ruins. Near by, a Gurkha battalion had established its GHQ without bothering to check for snipers in the upper room. A British officer sent his aide to inspect the attic, and when the Gurkha returned, Johnston recorded this conversation...
...wary balancings of power that have gone on since Stalin died, Bulganin has a unique qualification: his experience as liaison man between the untrusting masters of the Kremlin and the untrusting brasshats of Moscow's Frunze Street, the Red army GHQ. The Kremlin used Bulganin as "the eye of the party on the army." At one point, his job was to cut down to size such wartime heroes as Zhukov and Konev. But Bulganin also seems to have ingratiated himself somewhat with the military people by becoming a lobbyist in the Kremlin for better weapons and higher army...
...Pittsburgh, stocked nearby bank vaults with microfilms of vital company records, and instructed key personnel to head for this emergency shelter at the first sign of attack. Standard Oil (NewJersey) set up an alternate office 60 to 75 miles outside New York City to feed, sleep and serve as GHQ for 100 top executives. Curtiss-Wright bought 84 square miles in north central Pennsylvania to assemble jet engines and 5,000 acres in New Jersey's Ramapo Hills for a bombproof headquarters. The petroleum industry has set up five regional committees to run the natural gas and oil industry...
...last moment the Army causally added a law school. Captain Seavey was assigned to set it up. Given two old barracks to work in, he immediately--without authority--commissioned Army carpenters to make classrooms out of them and hi-jacked a shipment of chairs headed for GHQ. Acting with consummate nerve, Seavey even turned in an order for a thousand fountain pens to equip the students he did not yet have. (The Army was not that dumb, however; it refused.) Finally, just four days after the whole thing started, he was ready to begin teaching. More than 150 students showed...