Word: marshaller
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...commandos; of a heart attack; in Wiseton, England. The storybook image of a daring British commando, the tall, blue-eyed Laycock led his raiders through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water...
...Apologies. Yet it was clear that most of the Senate favored the measure. As in 1964, when he helped shep herd that year's sweeping civil rights bill into law, Dirksen abruptly appointed himself field marshal of the liberals' forces. Together with a squad of his lawyers known as "Dirksen's Bombers," Ev spent more than two days in negotiations with Senate liberals to fashion a compromise bill. The legislation that emerged would affect an estimated total of 44.6 million of the roughly 65 million housing units in the nation...
...America to search for gold. But born in the land of the ranch and the Colt, he shot his way up to sheriff. He's a legionnaire, a regular army non-com who earns his stripes, one after the other. He makes me think of Bernadotte [the French marshal who became King Charles XIV of Sweden], a sergeant who's been crowned. An efficient man without any style. I rather like Johnson. He doesn't even take the trouble to pretend he's thinking. Roosevelt and Kennedy were masks over the real face of America. Johnson...
...Michel Simon) is the peasant patriarch-a ramshackle curmudgeon who feeds his doddering dog with a fork, refuses to eat the rabbits that are mainstays of the family wartime diet, worships Marshal Petain, and fervently believes that Jews are responsible for most of the woes of mankind. The story concerns the deepening love of man and boy for each other, in a world neither of them understands...
...said his talks will concentrate on the "sensibility of contemporary secular man." Since that sensibility is "very much influenced by visual popular culture, to talk without doing would be contradictory--like Marshal McLuhan writing books about how books are a thing of the past," he added...