Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Verdillac went to Acre instead of General Dentz, because he is more pro-British, less anti-De Gaulle than his superior. With Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson at the H-shaped conference table was General Georges Catroux, Free French commander of the campaign, condemned to death by Vichy. The sight of him might have caused General Dentz pain. General de Verdillac, however, lost no time in putting things on a cozy footing. He leaned toward an Australian sentry, winked, made a throat-slitting gesture with one hand and whispered: "Les Baches...
Captain Freddy Keyes' ninth inning homer broke up the tie ball game with Tufts yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, and gave the Crimson nine its first victory over a Jumbo aggregation in three seasons...
Lanky Charlie Brackett showed a return to his Sophomore form by hurling fine ball, allowing only three hits and two walks. Olsen, Jumbo moundman, struck out seven men, but allowed seven walks...
...unfounded that the English leadership at the present initiatory stages ... is taking the precaution of not losing contact with a suitable harbor for retreat." The supposition was correct. In the face of German superiority in strength, the British leadership-in the person of Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, General WavelPs right-hand man in the winter campaign in Africa-was not so foolish as to be inveigled into the error of Flanders: being drawn into hostile territory only to have communications cut to the rear...
...like the lovely dream circus in Billy Rose's Jumbo, only five times larger...