Word: marshal
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...turned out, neither the madame nor the marshal was much of a success during the final days of their visits...
...Marshal. For his part, it was Marshal Tito's presence, rather than his words, that lent excitement to his visit. Tito's address to the United Nations General Assembly was a ho-hum, all-things-to-all-men bid for continued ways to reach peaceful coexistence...
Fresh from a state visit to King Hassan II in Rabat, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie flew to Algeria aboard the imperial Boeing 720 jet. Wearing a British field marshal's uniform, the Lion of Judah was warmly greeted by Socialist Strongman Ahmed ben Bella, who happened to be wearing his own favorite costume, Castro-type fatigues. Other envoys and messages descended on Morocco from the Arab League, the President of the Sudan, the Redeemer of Ghana, the President of Tunisia, and the feuding rulers of Egypt and Iraq...
...Your bombers destroyed German production, and Allied production made the defeat of Germany certain." General of the Infantry Georg Thomas, military chief of the German Office of Production related: "Bombing alone could not have defeated Germany, but without bombing the war would have lasted for years longer." And Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, von Rundstedt's successor as Commander-in-Chief of the West, admitted that "Dive bombing and terror attacks on civilians, combined with the heavy bombing, proved our undoing... Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat...
...summer vacation ended with the traditional cry of the marshal. And the very haste with which the court hustled through ceremony and got down to its closed-door business testified to its crowded calendar. The nine blackrobed justices spent just 24 minutes admitting 70 new attorneys to practice before them; then they retired to their spacious, book-lined conference room. There they devoted the rest of the week to deciding which of the appeals and petitions that had piled up during the summer merit consideration. By their choice of cases, the justices would determine the issues they will be ruling...