Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's rubble grew so high that German tanks were unable to roll over it. Through it all, Hitler insisted that his generals stand firm, refusing to allow them to try to break out of the trap and save part of their army. Against his orders, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrendered, and on Feb. 2 the last pockets of resistance collapsed. For three days thereafter, Germans at home heard nothing but mournful commentary and dirges on their radios...
...policy in Southeast Asia for having "bought time for some 200 million people to develop without their being ceaselessly confronted with combined external-internal Communist threats of growing proportions." There is not the slightest suggestion that the Vietnamese people might just possibly prefer the NLF to the rule of Marshal Ky and his cronies and to the wholesale destruction of their country. Such simplistic treatment of the Southeast Asian national liberation movements is paradoxical in a statement that condemns the mass media for "inducing the fears and stereotypes that inhibit rational thought." To take the signers of the statement...
...hundreds of psychological portraits of war figures, Macmillan thus characterized Mussolini's successor, Marshal Badoglio: "Honest, broadminded, humorous. I should judge of peasant origin." It might stand also as a fair self-portrait of the grandson of a Scots crofter...
Monty Memoir," which had Field Marshal Montgomery recalling those bloody days in the North African desert 25 years ago. Among other specials in debut last week: CBS's "Flanders and Swann," a wryly amusing hour, but too familiar to anyone who had seen the British song-and-patter team on Broadway; and CBS's dramatization of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, which, while a triumph for French Actor Roger Cog-gio, who learned the English dialogue phonetically, was too lacking in action to satisfy the visual demands...
...Airport at 4 a.m., squads of Italian police suddenly materialized and took up positions around the field. Moments later, a white turboprop jet taxied to a stop on the apron. In the plane's door way appeared a young man in the red-trimmed uniform of a field marshal...