Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just received a request from my friend, Air Vice Marshal Weedon, of the Royal Air Force, to arrange to send him a subscription to TIME, and trust that you will be able to accommodate him, for unbiased reporting is now more than ever essential to our allies as well as ourselves...
Paragon's Job. But there was hope. Old Marshal Pietro Badoglio belatedly consulted southern Italy's six anti-Fascist parties, gave them seven of 13 cabinet portfolios in a broadened government. The cleanup of known Fascists, at first very slow, had been speeded up (total ousted to date: 820). The AMG in Italy, largely staffed by British and U.S. businessmen with no nose for Fascists, had been absorbed by the better-run Allied Control Commission under British Lieut. General Mason-Macfarlane. In particular, an Italian-American from New York had brought to bear a great deal of political...
Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead...
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov (1729-1800) joined the Russian Army as a boy, served against the Swedes and Prussians. He rose to be a major general, a field marshal, a count of the Holy Roman Empire, a prince, a friend of Catherine II. He won signal victories against the Turks, the Poles and the French Revolutionists. Like many another great captain, Suvorov ended his days in defeat and temporary disgrace. But he is a natural hero of the Soviet Union-a rough-spoken soldier's soldier, who disdained foppery and diplomatic delicacy...
...frozen in their seats, also started jumping. The teacher calmed them by getting them to pick up the quivering coals, then sent for help. School officials who came on the run found the disturb ance subsiding, but swear that lumps of coal were still trembling. Next day State Fire Marshal Charles Schwartz organized a full-dress investigation. Submitted to lie-detector tests, Teacher Rebel and her pupils got a clean bill of truth-telling health. Chemists in the state colleges closely analyzed the coal. They could find nothing out of the way. The coal, the bucket and the dictionary were...