Word: loveday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general attitude of the Americans was reflected by Lieutenant Lawrence Bangser, veteran Marine raider: "Either this Jap general is the world's greatest tactician or the world's most stupid man." Before noon on L-day (Loveday in the voice signal alphabet), the Jap general had lost Okinawa beyond reprieve. The tanks had arrived, the artillery was arriving to augment the planes and naval gunfire. The fleet's big guns had not been necessary in the immediate sense of killing Japs, but they had perhaps discouraged the halfhearted Jap general...
Alexander Loveday, Director of the Economic, Financial and Transit Division of the League of Nations, in a lecture at the Littauer Lounge last night, emphasized that unless we plan ahead constructively for the transition to peace economy we will soon find ourselves again...
...Lynx-lithe Dave Freeman of Pasadena, 20: the U.S. badminton championship, for the third year in a row; lambasting Carl Loveday of Montclair, N.J. in the final, 15-6, 15-8; in Cleveland's Public Hall. Champion Freeman is also a crack tennis player: national junior champion in 1938, fourth ranking doubles player of the U.S. (with Ted Schroeder...