Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally, proper names are one grand mal de tête. Unfamiliar names of newsmakers erupt into the headlines almost daily-Marshal Fevsi Çakmak. Princess Sukhodhaya, Sir Ofori Atta. And rare is the week that strange place names don't pop up, as the news shifts around from earthquakes in the Caribbean to incidents in the air over Yugoslavia. For months now the research librarian in charge of the Biography files in our Morgue has been working on a great continuing project to assist researchers in checking the proper names and titles of foreigners...
Yesterday I read an Associated Press cable: "Footsore and shabby, the once haughty Emmy Goring walked and hitchhiked to Nürnberg jail and pleaded tearfully to see the former Reich Marshal 'just once more.' She was turned down...
...Field Marshal Viscount Harold Alexander, Governor General of Canada and leisure-hour painter, celebrated the joys of his hobby in the British Magazine. "As exciting as . . .hunting or stalking," said he. Among the high-ranking pleasures of oil paint: the "delicious smell." Confessed the Field Marshal: "I have fought many battles, and . . . generally been able to see. . . how the battle would develop, but when I am faced with a large white canvas. . . I suffer badly from...
...prestige everywhere. He had said of Slaughter: "If he's right, I'm wrong." The result in Missouri's primary did not necessarily mean that all the voters thought the President was right. It did show that among some Democrats at least the President could marshal support for his program of middle-of-the-roadism cum New Deal trimmings...
...Marshal Tito was about to get a wish. The U.S. ambassador was returning to Belgrade with something the Marshal had asked for: a genuine Chicago typewriter (Tommy...