Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quick-on-the-draw deputy U.S. marshal at Tombstone, Ariz...
...purge had spread to the satellite countries. The Czech Communist Party was ousting some 200,000 of its million members. There were rumors that Marshal Tito had begun a housecleaning among his "Old Guard" Partisans. In Paris, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georgi Kulishev admitted that Bulgaria was purging "enemies, opponents or disloyal collaborators with the present government...
...years Li Lisan was filed away, like Josip Broz (now Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito) and Boleslaw Rutkowski (now Poland's President Bierut), in Moscow's human archives. But last week Li was back in the inner circles of the Yenan Government. Some thought they recognized his dynamic hand already in reports that Yenan was considering superseding the present loose union of local Communist governments with a strong central regime...
Official Montreal really put on the dog for its distinguished visitor. Excitable Mayor Camillien Houde was absolutely épaté as the visitor signed his name below Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's in the city's Gold Book. Then came a civic reception, and that afternoon the visitor was whisked out to the Blue Bonnets racetrack for the running of the big sixth race, renamed in his honor. The winning jockey was a namesake (but no kin) of Maurice Chevalier, which was fitting, because the man who handed him the winner's plaque was the latest homme...
...first attack (Aug. 9), witnessed by Marshal Tito while fishing near Bled, had cost no lives. The one casualty: a Turkish captain passenger in the U.S. plane, who was wounded by fire from the Yugoslav fighters. The nine crew members (including Captain William Crombie, veteran of 23 supply-drop missions to Tito's forces during the war) and passengers were taken to Yugoslav officers' quarters in Ljubljana. There they were given "everything we asked for except our freedom," questioned repeatedly "on all subjects...