Word: gruentherized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief target for this chant is U.S. General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Commander of all NATO forces in Europe. To the chanters, Gruenther retorts that the only change in the Russians is what NATO's strength has forced on them. With a cascade of facts drawn from an incredible memory, an inextinguishable smile and a dry Nebraska lucidity that is the admiration of every statesman in Europe, Al Gruenther fights that tired feeling with a combination of public optimism and private exhortation that is his specialty. To those who speak of Russian smiles, he recites precise figures of Russian forces...
...have been so superbly fitted to fill their time and place in history as General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther. As NATO's first Supreme Commander in Europe (SACEUR), Eisenhower and his towering prestige rallied and heartened Europe's terrified nations and gave them confidence that the thing could be done. His successor, General Matthew Ridgway, was a blunt soldier who demanded more troops than the Europeans were willing to supply, stepped on many toes, and left no happy memories. In a time of peace-mongering, Gruenther has inherited the demanding and delicate...
...SHAPE'S annual dining-in affair in Paris, glittering with NATO's top brass, slightly offbeat but recognizable supper music rose from the Royal Canadian Signal Corps band under the batons of amateur conductors, choppy General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and his first deputy, stabby Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein...
...University might be able to lure General Alfred Gruenther, one of the acknowledged world's amateur experts on bridge, to take the Goren Chair of Whist after he retires from his present job. With such a distinguished professor teaching the course, it would soon become the largest in the University...
...Joseph Alsop, the Cassandras of the defense program, were really too worried about the state of U.S. preparedness, notably the production rate of heavy jet bombers. Then reporters asked Radford about possible successors at the end of his term, 19 months hence. "Do you think General [Alfred M.] Gruenther might succeed you?" inquired one. "He would be a good man," said Radford. "Or maybe we ought to get Joe Alsop in there...