Word: marshallized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happened last week in Bangkok was not a coup d'état, nor even a coup de main, coup de Jarnac, coup de grâce, coup de maitre, coup de pied or a coup d'oeil. Searching for the trenchant Gallic phrase to describe Strongman Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat's apparent coup against himself, the best that observers could manage was coup de repos, i.e., a move that leaves the main features of a situation unchanged but also puts opponents at a disadvantage...
...MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY (508 pp.)-Bernard Law Montgomery-World...
...lost his early engagements: "My early life was a series of fierce battles, from which my mother invariably emerged the victor." Her approach to the problem posed by Bernard Law Montgomery was simple: "Go and find out what Bernard is doing and tell him to stop it." Field-Marshal Rommel did not find matters so easy...
...early that mamma gave daddy 10s. a week with which to maintain his prestige. On the evidence of his Memoirs, it would seem that Montgomery never allowed himself much more. Having received the surrender of German forces at the end of World War II, he received the envoy of Marshal Rokossovsky, who wished to know his tastes before giving him a post-victory lunch? Which wines did he prefer? Montgomery was addicted to water. Cigars? He did not smoke. The Russian murmured that they had some women at headquarters available for VIPs. Monty was not interested: women were...
Intransigence & Righteousness. The college today can look back on some turbulent early days. Oberlin was a way station on the Underground Railway, and once a sizable faculty mob swarmed ten miles to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...