Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific white-haired Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou Diamond read his citation: ". . . outstanding performance of duty on Tulagi and Guadalcanal ... an ideal Marine." In Washington the Marine Corps proudly released the record of its paragon, already famed (TIME, Feb. 22) for the history his mortar crew made in the Solomons...
...modern literary figure combines Griswold's prominence, his position as a cultural master of ceremonies, and his un steady, enigmatic personal life. His second marriage was to a wealthy spinster of Charleston, S.C. He was 30. She was 13 years older, living with two spinster aunts. The women believed that Griswold and his two daughters had a fortune of $50,000. They did not. Griswold on his part dreamed of a winter home in the temperate South. "On his wedding night the bridegroom learned that . . . the woman who bore his name was, through some physical misfortune, incapable of being...
Blueprinter. Baruch's master blueprint for industrial mobilization brought order out of the war's early confusion. As all-powerful chairman of the War Industries Board, he established the first wartime priorities system for materials and labor, set up production schedules, cut down civilian industries...
...Different. In June last year the Germans had some 240 divisions available for the Russian front. Despite the losses of the first winter, they were fresh. They were splendidly equipped. The Luftwaffe was master of the Russian air. Yet in 1942 the Germans dared not attempt a front-wide drive to knock out Russia and the Red Army. Heavy though the southern blow was, it was a limited blow, intended to cripple rather than to kill...
This year the Germans have fewer divisions in Russia (according to Winston Churchill, 218). Many of these divisions are now veterans of defeat; many are probably below strength, or padded with misfits. The Luftwaffe is no longer master of the air and, at least in some sectors, it has already been mastered by the Red Air Force. On no sector, not even in the critical Orel area south of Moscow, have the Germans been able to mass the strength which they assembled in the south last year...