Word: marshalls
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...ground in Normandy. The total number of killed, wounded and missing was estimated at fewer than 5,000. It was a much lower toll than the 75,000 some planners feared would become casualties. There might have been far more if the Germans -- who were without their commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, or any air cover -- had not waited 10 hours before sending the first tanks of the veteran 21st Panzer Division into action against the invaders...
...piece battle of the sort he was expected to win. As he remained at a standstill week after week, Churchill was worried that Normandy would turn into a replay of the ghastly trench warfare of World War I. Many senior officers, including Eisenhower's British deputy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, thought Montgomery should be either forced to attack or fired. Some Americans suspected Montgomery was trying to conserve his strength and let U.S. units take the casualties...
Theran said the University Marshal's office called late Friday to say it had recovered the copy of her thesis...
...Trustees are regarded as donors themselves orpeople who can marshal those who can support theuniversity," Smith says. " They will be approachedas donors and their resources will at one time oranother be tapped into in fund campaigns...
...that hardly kept Greenspan from having to marshal his political cunning to defend himself against the Treasury's bid for a banking superagency. He deployed a full-time lobbyist, dropped in on members of Congress to attack the plan, and dispatched senior Fed officials to spread the word among important bankers that the Treasury plan was ill-advised. Among other things, the emissaries reminded bankers that the Fed had handed out loans to keep floundering financial institutions afloat in the late 1980s. And the banks needed no reminders that the Fed can deny them permission for acquisitions and ( mergers. Meanwhile...