Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Officer Mentality. Osami Nagano represents the most aggressive, hearty, popular officer type Japan possesses: he is a kind of Greater East Asian Halsey. He is big for a Japanese-about 5 ft. 9 in., and built like a barrel. He is famous for being able to roll liquor past his tongue without loosening it. He is, as all Japanese warriors should be, a good family man: at the age of 62 he is presently engaged in raising a family with his third wife. He laughs with his belly and his guts are tough...
...Diversion? Since Nov. 15 the restless Jap has made no major offensive moves. He seems for the time being to have given up much thought of retaking Guadalcanal: each of his tries there had been disasters. Reconnaissance has made the Jap aware of the great increases in Admiral William Halsey's forces east of Australia. This week Navy Minister Shigetaro Shimada said that Jap planes had spotted a huge U.S. task force off Rennell Island, south of Guadalcanal. (He claimed that torpedo planes had sunk two battleships and three cruisers...
Last Christmas Day Saunders and his chief executive, Major Jack Malloy, were summoned to headquarters of the Solomons' Air Commander, Major General Millard Harmon, for a cocktail party. In the midst of festivities COMSOUPAC Admiral William F. Halsey showed up, read an order, pinned on flustered Blondie the stars of a brigadier general...
GUADA-John Hersey, who spent all summer with Admiral Halsey's naval task forces and with the Marines on Guadalcanal...
Delegated "to administer the oath of office to the said Carter Glass" was owl-eyed, impressive Senate Secretary Colonel Edwin A. Halsey. Halsey bustled into snow-powdered Lynchburg on Friday with Rixey Smith, the Senator's secretary and Boswell. Surrounded by his family, friends, two physicians and three reporters, Carter Glass was waiting for them. "Hi, Ed," he said. "You're the United States Senate." Ed was. Solemnly Halsey intoned the oath, solemnly Glass intoned his response...