Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed the diverse career that makes a good Chief of Staff. In World War I, as a captain, his company commands ranged from M.P.s to front-line infantry. He was an early student at the antediluvian tank school in England. In 1941, three years after he left Tientsin to join MacArthur in the Philippines, he learned to fly. From his Republican father, U.S. Senator (1917-23) Howard Sutherland of West Virginia, Dick Sutherland even acquired a smattering of politics. He redesigned the Army-Navy Country Club course in Washington, won the Army golf championship. Once in a service baseball game...
...judgment of the tactical problem, had accepted the Darlan solution. In the minds of many non-Vichy Frenchmen, this had done his reputation much harm; certainly it had made cooperation between him and De Gaulle impossible until the obstacle of Darlan was removed. The Fighting French had hoped to join forces with the popular escapist Giraud, a hope that had been frustrated before they had been able even to establish contact with...
...Admiral Jean François Darlan, Marshal Pétain's retired colleague General Maxime Weygand refused to reassume his African command and was promptly seized by the Nazis as a hostage for brave old General Henri Honoré Giraud who had got across the Mediterranean to join the Allies...
...synthetics is superior to natural rubber in at least one respect and for at least one use. Yet none claims to be perfect. Each will improve with further research, and ought to supersede natural rubber in its special field. Rubber itself may never regain its pre-war place, may join natural dyes, lacquers, resins, and perhaps silk in limbo...
...Saratoga, 1777. General John Burgoyne tried to drive down from Canada in order to join the British commander, Howe, on the Hudson, but was so roughly handled at Bennington and in two engagements near Saratoga, that he capitulated. News of Burgoyne's surrender impressed Louis XVI of France enough to make him sign an alliance with the U.S. Within a few weeks, France and Britain were at war. Total U.S. casualties: 80 killed, 190 wounded...