Word: marshal
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...Gomulka's forces and compelled to agree to the Poles' demands. He was in the thick of the Hungarian action, where his slick manipulation was not enough: it took a tank-led invasion. The final repression was the Red army's idea, and at least once Marshal Zhukov showed himself relentless when the others hesitated. "We tried all we could to find another solution," Mikoyan said later to a Western diplomat. "I myself advised the acceptance of one Hungarian ultimatum after another, but I couldn't advise accepting the last...
Slow and unprepossessing as it was, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra Express was a valiant symbol of what Frenchmen like to call "the French presence" in Algeria. Conceived by Napoleon III and completed under the supervision of Marshal Louis Lyautey, greatest of France's North African proconsuls, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra line is the southernmost portion of a railroad that runs all the way from the Mediterranean port of Oran to the rim of the Sahara...
...Yuma (Columbia). "Safe?" sneers the marshal. "Who knows what's safe? I know a man dropped dead from lookin' at his wife." By that standard, moviegoers will be safer at this picture than at home. The marshal is trying to "deppytize" a passel of Hollywood tender-seats to convey a captured dry-gulch artist (Glenn Ford) cross country to catch a train, but the bandit's gang is on the lurk, and the cowboys aren't having any. They leave the job to a drought-poor homesteader (Van Heflin) who needs the money...
...sunset of empire, Britain did things in style. At Kuala Lumpur's newly built Merdeka Stadium, the mustachioed Duke of Gloucester formally conferred sovereignty on the new nation, in the name of his niece, the Queen. Backing the duke was a distinguished group of Britons, including Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, who as High Commissioner to Malaya turned the tide against the Communist rebellion in Malaya in 1952-54, and Viscount Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain...
...expert guidance, Gilles started on a career of pillage and debauchery, sadism and sodomy. The only year of his life that becomes him was 1429, when he fought side by side with Joan of Arc against the English, and King Charles VII made him, at 24, a marshal of France. But even this year of good behavior is challenged by those who believe that, aided by Burgundian friends, it was he who betrayed Joan. Skipping out on the wars, despite a pledge to the King to fight on, Gilles returned to Tiffauges, lived it up with gold borrowed from...