Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. A leathery British general gallantly pays tribute to the grit and gusto of friends and enemies alike in these stirring memoirs of this century's great wars...
...before, McShane and Doar tried pleading, urging, arguing, demanding and waving court orders-all in vain.* Now McShane tried using his muscles. Several times he pushed a meaty shoulder against highway patrolmen, trying to force his way past. Ruddy-faced Marshal McShane, 53, is a formidable man. He won the Golden Gloves welterweight championship of New York City back in 1930, and he has since added many pounds of solid flesh. He is also a brave man who won several citations for heroism during his years as a New York cop. But he was outnumbered...
...Governor Barnett," said one of the two men accompanying Meredith. "I'm John Doar of the Justice Department, sir. These papers. Governor, I'd like to present you with these papers." The other man, James McShane, Chief U.S. Marshal, fumblingly tried to hand Barnett a sheaf of court orders. In a sonorous drawl, Barnett said that as a matter of "policy" he could not accept any court orders. Doar, the No. 2 man in the Justice Department's civil rights division, persisted. "I want to remind you," he said, "that the Court of Appeals of the Fifth...
Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. A leathery British general gallantly pays tribute to the grit and gusto of friends and enemies alike in these stirring memoirs of this century's great wars...
...Contemporaries. Dwight Eisenhower did not just pick brains-he "sponged on genius." De Gaulle's verdict on Field Marshal Montgomery: "He's no soldier, he's an actor. But he plays so well at being a leader that he manages to identify himself with the part." De Gaulle's image of De Gaulle was most memorably expressed to a courageous colleague who protested that he needlessly endangers his life by mingling with the crowds on official tours. Answered De Gaulle: "Keep in mind one thing, sir. De Gaulle interests me only as a historic personage." While...