Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pentagon pundits offered explanations: 1) his predecessor, Major General Russell P. ("Scrappy") Hartle (new assignment unannounced), was due for relief from 18 months of duty overseas; 2) Townsend Gerow holds the confidence of Chief of Staff George Marshall, whom he followed by ten years at Virginia Military Institute.* Best guess was that Gerow's reputation earned him a job that may take him to the bridgeheads on Western Europe. He is one of the Army's top infantry tacticians...
...plane so "hot" on landing that many experienced pilots do not like to fly it. But Farley brought his B-26 in gently, drifting it in just fast enough to keep it from stalling. Afterward he said: "We all walked away, all that could walk after that flak. I guess that's all we could...
...crew. . . ." The crews, swelled to 140 men, crowded the Operations Office to hear Major James Doolittle: "If you men have any idea that this isn't the most dangerous thing you've ever been on, don't even start this training period. ... If you've guessed where we're going, don't even talk about your guess...
...Army Specialized Training Unit, the Army supply Officers Training School, and the School for Overseas Administration while listing uniformed groups stationed at the University, but these are all relatively new and might have required some research. How the figures on Armed Forces were arrived at is anybody's guess. But these are merely incidental objections to the story...
...girl, complicated because Ray does not know until late in the battle that he is fighting anyone. The theme of Trio, troubling and unpopular, has the narrow importance of illuminating one aspect of the emotional disorder in American moral and educational life. What the simple Ray did not guess at first was that the relationship between the sharp professor and the trembling student had been intimate enough to drive Janet into a mental home. He discovered Pauline to be more than "a sort of good-looking clotheshorse little pipsqueak of a schoolteacher." But, in finally winning Janet away from...