Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having served under him in the U.S. Navy I am willing to bet that the other 500 men of the former crew of the U.S.S. Pitt will vouch that they have never known of any one person who used adjectives more dramatically or profusely than Lieut. Commander Goodrich, no matter whether he was instructing, explaining, praising or more especially reprimanding with super-adjectival expletives...
...Ladder. Success in politics took Aléman somewhat longer. Three times between 1929 and 1935 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress from Vera Cruz. Then he renewed acquaintance with young Lieut. Colonel Carlos Serrano, a dark and devious little man with a passion for politicking. Serrano had drifted from the army into politics, watching closely as the powerful Calles maneuvered Presidents in & out of the National Palace, and the more powerful Cardenas in 1934 maneuvered...
...capture German allegiance. At the conference table Molotov catered to German nationalism by prating of German "unity." But what two Russian generals recently said about German unity in Berlin was far more interesting than Molotov's Moscow rhetoric. During a private meeting with German Communists, Lieut. Generals Makarov and Georgiefi declared...
...ordering the servants about too much. King George can approve his daughter's marriage only with the consent of the Cabinet, and so far Philip's connection with the Greek regime, remote as it is, has been a slight hitch. But last week, as plain Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, Prince Philip was granted his British citizenship, and even that hitch seemed to have been overcome. When Elizabeth is asked about her engagement, she replies with a coy, "For that you must wait and see." But the Empire is quite prepared to welcome...
...Found: Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay's limousine; in a Czechoslovakian border village; two weeks after it was stolen from a Berlin A.M.G. parking lot. The culprits, vowed police, would be apprehended any minute...