Word: noncom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...described was Communist "General Gomez," commander of the Loyalist XIII Brigade, later chief of staff of all the International Brigades. He was really Hans Zaisser, born in 1893 in the Ruhr. In World War I, Zaisser fought as a German noncom. Later he joined the Red military organization (M-Apparat), was a leader in the 1923 abortive uprisings in the Rhineland. When Hitler came in, he fled to Soviet Russia...
Along Nanking Road, Shanghai's main business street, Red soldiers herded captured Nationalists into filling stations. When an angry crowd of civilians turned on a frightened Nationalist soldier, Red troops dispersed them. At one busy corner, a Communist noncom stood guard over a lone Nationalist soldier who squatted self-consciously in a doorway. "What about him?" asked a civilian. "He is very happy now," replied the noncom. The soldier, puffing a cigarette, grinned sheepishly. And under the marquee of the Cathay Theater, a lone Communist private, obviously ill at ease in the big city's hurlyburly, served...
...would not take no for an answer. She must see Rosita González de Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...
Frederick was a European prince of the Enlightenment, and not, like Adolf Hitler, a psychopathic noncom. He paid noble homage to Voltaire until the crafty genius abused his friendship by promising to report confidentially to the French court on what Frederick was up to. Frederick patronized the arts, practiced philosophy, loved poetry and composed for the flute. Just as significant as any of these gifts, however, were his personal candor and his lack of principle; he fooled and defrauded others, but he willingly, if secretly, admitted the frauds. Frederick was secretive and an adept at dissimulation ("If I thought that...
World War I as a noncom, served as a colonel in desk jobs during World War II, and in between ran a butter-&-egg business in Uniontown, Pa., his home town, and a public relations business in Washington. Says Griffith, who has fought organized labor on the issue of superseniority for veterans: "Veterans are not getting jobs as fast as nonveterans and something has to be done about...