Word: pattonism
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...sure when or how it would come. Since D-day (June 5, 1944), W.W. II had turned around entirely. For six weeks the outnumbered Germans had been losing the war across France and Belgium faster than the Allied armies, running short of fuel, could win it. Lieut. General George Patton in the south lay only 100 miles from the Rhine and, like Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in the north, he was convinced that he could reach Berlin in a matter of weeks...
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...Dunster House; Charles C. Miller III of Mather House; David W. Moscowitz of Lowell House; John-Michael A. Murville of Adams House; Richard S. Nelson of Quincy House; Jonathan Newmark of Dunster House; Kevin J. O'Brien of Eliot House; Mark R. Oppenheimer of Dudley House; Lewis F. Patton of Dunster House; Thomas G. Peyton of Dunster House; Daniel K. Podolsky of Dunster House; Corey Raffel of Lowell House; Mark C. Rahdert of Lowell House; and Peter A. Railton of Leverett House...
Other behavioral scientists connect Nixon's swearing with his admiration for tough guys like General Patton and the characters John Wayne plays and with his love for sports. Notes Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "He always wanted to be in the locker room, but never belonged there; he's like the coxswain on the crew." Many psychologists observe a deep-seated insecurity in Nixon and feel that he swears simply to be one of the boys...
...Patton is a great favorite of Richard Nixon's but stays ambiguous enough that that's no deterrent. Just assume he took it the other...