Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Westpointed U.S. officers commanding the temperamental De Lattre, he was hard to stomach. He had a supreme disregard for carefully planned strategy. (Says he: "The battle of the Marne was not won by a committee or a plan.") At one point during the fighting, the U.S. command ordered him to fall back to a new line, evacuate Strasbourg; he flatly refused. Another time, he attacked Ulm against instructions because Napoleon had captured...
...perspiration. Four years after the war, the narrative of Nazi evil retold in the courtroom roused no passion, fell back into forgetfulness. During his deft defense, Abetz mechanically professed Nazi theory, just as mechanically pleaded that he had always tried to mitigate Nazi practice. The sentence: 20 years at hard labor...
Sanchez' explanation was as muddled as his faith. When out of work a few years ago, he had prayed to the Virgin for assistance, and landed a fine job with a U.S. radio crew on the Galapagos Islands. After the yanquis left, hard times came back. He called on the Virgin to help him win the national lottery, but no such miracle took place. Said Sanchez: "From that day I felt in my heart hate and vengeance for the Virgin." He determined to steal the wooden image, and burn...
Before the anxious eyes of his wife Queen Juliana and their two eldest daughters, Prince Bern hard of The Neth erlands careened through a jumping event in London's 30th International Horse Show. After hitting two poles, two gates and a brick wall, he placed fourth from last. Said the prince gallantly of his gal lant mount: "She is a good mare and the faults were mine." Rewards & Returns George Catlett Marshall, a policy maker of some reputation, was elected a director of Pan American Airways Corp...
Last week the reorganization committee announced the appointment of a new bureau director: the Rev. Thomas J. McCarthy, 37, editor of the hard-hitting Los Angeles Catholic weekly, the Tidings, and a leader among the younger, liberal element in the church. Tall, silver-haired Father McCarthy went to Los Angeles in 1937 at his own request, just after he had been ordained in Springfield, Mass., in his home diocese. "I don't think I could have stood New England," he says now. "The forward movement is so imperceptible...