Word: pattonism
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Kelli Rae Patton '94 has hand written her thesis hundreds of times...
...native of Tennessee, Patton wrote a 40-page book of poetry trying to capture the rhythms and cadences of Southern Speech...
...Patton says this opportunity has allowed her to further her career interest in poetry. Next Year, she will enter a master's degree program in creative writing, and she hopes to make writing a permanent part of her life...
...Sicily and mainland Italy. They were sideshows in his eyes -- and the Italian campaign quickly bogged down into a bloody mile-by-mile struggle up the peninsula -- but they taught him a great deal about the complexities of such operations. Equally important, he and Generals Bradley and George Patton emerged from the North African and Italian battlefields as first-class combat leaders...
...issued the orders that cut off the Bulge -- a German penetration westward into Allied lines 45 miles wide and 65 miles deep -- and made certain it would fail. He sent the 101st Airborne to hold the key city of Bastogne, put three other divisions into the battle and ordered Patton to turn his Third Army 90 degrees to the north to cut the advancing Germans' supply lines. The German counteroffensive was, Eisenhower said later, "a dangerous episode." At the time, the Supreme Commander was unruffled. The situation, he told his generals, "is to be regarded as one of opportunity...