Word: marshaller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned around entirely. For six weeks the outnumbered Germans had been losing the war across France and Belgium faster than the Allied armies, running short of fuel, could win it. Lieut. General George Patton in the south lay only 100 miles from the Rhine and, like Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in the north, he was convinced that he could reach Berlin in a matter of weeks...
Together, McInally and Curtin constituted the best double-threat pass receiving duo in the East. But with Curtin out of the picture this year's field marshal, Milt Holt, may have to rely solely on his split end in his aerial attack...
...longer delay was turned down by Chief Justice Warren Burger of the Supreme Court. At the moment, Nixon is scheduled to be a witness at that trial, since a subpoena from Ehrlichman's lawyers was finally served privately on Nixon at San Clemente by a U.S. marshal. What action Nixon will take, if any, to avoid that appearance undoubtedly will be one of the first duties of Nixon's new personal Watergate defense lawyer, Herbert John (Jack) Miller Jr. The Washington firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & LeVin accepted the task after at least one, and possibly three law firms...
...yacht, cruising the Potomac Monday night, he was the tough field marshal, devising some grand strategy that would roll it all back in one brilliant stroke so that he could stand vindicated in some distant place and time. He put it bluntly the next day at the Cabinet meeting. He would not resign. There were no protests. But for the first time there were no spontaneous expressions of joy about fighting the good battle. The absence of cheers for his defiance may have helped make things come more clearly into focus for Richard Nixon...
...precisely 11:03 Wednesday morning when the marshal's cry of "Oyez, oyez, oyez" rang out in the marble-pillared Supreme Court Building...