Word: josip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the delegates stood the man called Drug Tito. He heard them acclaim him Marshal of Yugoslavia, the first in history. Now he could drop his incognito, step forth officially as Josip Broz, Croatian metalworker, Communist labor leader and fighter for Loyalist Spain against Francisco Franco. The new Marshal's first act: substitution of the conventional army salute for the Partisans' greeting-the clenched fist...
...problem given Rommel was tough and thankless, but just the thing for a former genius trying a comeback. The Partisans under Tito (Josip Broz) then held much of the country in patches of varying strength. They occupied Split (Spalato), the most important Dalmatian port, and many of the islands off the Adriatic coast from Fiume to Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The Germans were on the defensive everywhere, attacked from all sides...
...wish to nominate General Josip Brozovich, leader of the Partisan Yugoslavs whom the Spaniards in their revolution named "Tito...
...Tito is Josip Broz, or Brozovich, 53, Croatian ex-metal worker, Communist-trained leader of the People's Liberation Army, rival organization to General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks. Berlin has offered 100,000 gold marks for either man's head...