Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risk and pay the price required of them by their struggle to hold the Tunisian tip. While I have always hesitated to say anything which might afterwards look like overconfidence, I cannot resist the remark that one seems to discern in this policy the touch of a master hand, the same master hand that planned the attack on Stalingrad...
Stout wanted to rouse hatred against those Germans "who accept, either actively or passively, the doctrine of the German master race . . . [or] who, reluctant to join the Nazis, nevertheless failed, through lack of courage or conviction, to prevent the Nazis from . . . plunging the world into this filthy swamp of destruction." In other words, hate most of Germany...
...other at the new Pyote Officers' Club. On the stroke of midnight, an officer stepped to the microphone, asked for a moment of silence "as a small tribute to those we left over there"-to men like Captain Harl Pease, Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, Major Dean ("Pinky") Hoevet, Master Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva, Lieut. R. B. Burleson and Captain Colin Kelly. The widows of many men of the igth were present...
What food do soldiers like, what do they eat because they have to? To find the answer to this and many another delicate dietetic question, the Army detailed Master Sergeant Horace Scherwin and 50 other enlisted men. In a twelve-month they examined meals served to 2,474,362 men in 500 Army mess halls, measured the contents of countless garbage cans, clocked eating habits. By last week they were able to report that the U.S. soldier...
Through three volumes totaling 2,230 pages Lanny has played Master of Ceremonies for a mammoth floorshow version of 20th-century history, and in the fourth he is still one of the most adroit and likable quick-change artists in the profession. He can beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises...