Word: liaisoning
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...Maxim's!" Mademoiselle was angry to a degree which bearded Major Bertrand de Seze could describe only with closed eyes and a quick shaking of the head. Said she: "You may be sure I shall remain angry until I am back to the forward company." A French liaison officer guessed that that would not be long...
...Littauer scholarship. Just as soon as he left Harvard a year later, the Navy grabbed him and sent him back--this time to "play soldier" and learn military administration. By the time he finally received a chance to go back to Washington--after four years of work as Port Liaison Officer of Yokohama--his attitude on the academic life had changed. Staying in the Capital only long enough to get credit on his Civil Service rating for the four years in service, he returned to Harvard as a teaching fellow...
...help him accomplish his goals, said Stassen, he intended to call on such men as Douglas MacArthur (for Western Pacific problems), Bernard Baruch (for economics), Dwight Eisenhower (for Western Europe), Herbert Hoover (for Government reorganization). Ralph Bunche (for the United Nations), Democrats Jim Farley and Senator Harry Byrd (for liaison with the Democrats...
...British-the first Senator to see combat since the Civil War. Re-elected later the same year, he became restive. Early in 1944, he resigned from the Senate and went on active duty. He served in Italy and Southern France, doing staff work and using his linguistic abilities for liaison with the U.S.'s allies. He returned home with six battle stars and the Bronze Star (for bravery). In 1946, he was re-elected by 330,000 votes...
...rubber boats and barges, and attacked Taehwa, the largest of the three islands, in three waves. Under cover of shore batteries from Communist-held islands nearby, the attackers waded ashore through mudflats on Taehwa's north side. The South Korean defenders-among whom were a handful of U.S. liaison officers and technicians-were not only surprised but outnumbered. In 14 junks of their own they quickly evacuated the island from the south. With Taehwa gone, the" two smaller islands fell easily to the enemy. It was the first amphibious attack brought off by the Chinese Communists in the Korean...