Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manila trial of tall (6 ft.) Lieut. General Masaharu Homma added three new footnotes to history...
...winter of 1943-44, after a bloody mauling at Salerno, the men of the 36th Division went back into the line. A few weeks later, at the Rapido River, the Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark committed them to one of the bloodiest engagements of the Italian campaign...
Meanwhile, John Bull dandled the unwanted Indonesian baby on his lap, alternately caressing and cuffing it. On the soft side, Britain's Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison attended an Indonesian art show with Premier Sjahrir (the Premier's eye was blackened from a beating administered by Dutch troops); British and Indonesian teams played a soccer match (scoreless tie). In sterner mood, the British skirmished with Indonesian guerrillas, and jailed as "undesirables" a good many members of Premier Sjahrir's Peace Preservation Corps; showing no favoritism, they also cracked down on trigger-happy Netherlands forces, sending back...
Madame Butterfly hopefully braced herself for a comeback after wartime internment. With Lieut. Pinkerton she would make her postwar debut this week at the Metropolitan Opera, which tolerated her last in November 1941, then discreetly dropped...
...journalism took a second look at its part in the Morgan affair (see INTERNATIONAL), and what it saw turned its face red-or should have. In quoting Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan about an organized Jewish "plot" (the press's word, not Morgan's) to smuggle the Jews out of Europe, the press had told some of the truth, but not the whole truth...