Word: ist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laugher, he has a quiet humor and a sudden wide grin. Careless of his dress, he likes what his family calls "all-purpose" pants-he sometimes wears the same pair to the Senate, to the golf links, and to dinner. In private, he is a genial and pleasant conversational ist; on the Senate floor he is all business-cold, aggressive, persistent...
...last week, a melancholy little note straggled into TIME'S Manhattan offices. It came from the editor of Der Optimist, a small Viennese weekly. Said the note: "We are sorry, that we have to announce you already today, that our paper will stop to appear with the ist of March. The time does not yet seem to be favorable for papers with optimistic titles -at least not in Central Europe...
...Americans to pull out of Germany. Said the worker: "For God's sake, don't leave us. Of course we strike to try to get unity and more food. Who wouldn't? But we don't want the Americans to leave. So dof ist keiner [nobody is that cracked]. Then we would have only the Russians...
...clock the ist Marine Division on Peleliu had made only 200 yards. The Japanese lieutenant had noted in his diary that although the bombardment had altered the island's scenery, only one man in his company was hurt. Snug in their caves, the Japanese waited until the first wave hit the beach, then, "the guns on point and island opened, many of those back in the ridge, and a mortar barrage so heavy that those who lived through it said it was the worst they had ever seen." By nightfall there were 1,298 dead & wounded Marines, the beachhead...
Between wars, Cates served variously as a White House aide to Woodrow Wilson, recruiting officer and China hand. In May 1942, he was appointed commanding officer of the ist Marine Regiment. With the 1st, he helped seize Guadalcanal. After Guadalcanal, he moved to Saipan, took over command of the 4th Marine Division. Gates led the 4th in its famed assaults on Tinian and Iwo Jima. Military experts have since described the Tinian assault as "the perfect amphibious operation." To get ready for it, Cates personally did aerial reconnaissance over the island. Once ashore, he visited the front lines almost daily...