Word: pattonism
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When Richard Nixon pinned a flag in his lapel and became the spirit of '76, lapel flags blossomed in board rooms and Rotarian halls. After the story got out that Nixon had seen Patton at least three times, the motion picture's gate went up an estimated...
Then the Israelis struck back, in the central sector of the front along the eastern bank. Jets screeched overhead, and the eerie white tracks of ground-to-air missiles marked the bright autumn sky. Hundreds of M-60 Patton tanks moved through the golden dunes and barren hills of the Sinai, throwing up huge rooster tails of swirling sand...
Similarly, Israeli troops have used their American Patton and British Centurion tanks more effectively than the Arabs have their lighter Russian-made T-54/55s. Neither side has had much opportunity to test how effectively they use the surface-to-air missiles protecting their base areas and cities. But by sinking four of Syria's Soviet-built Komar missile boats off Latakia on Saturday, the Israeli navy has shown how skillfully it has mastered the made-in-Israel radar-guided Gabriel missiles. Most Western military analysts expect the Israeli forces to defeat the combined Arab forces. But if Israel...
...surfaced first. She is a freelancer on the fringes of Washington journalism, and her participation in the caper was dismissed as a bad joke. But Freidin, 56, though never in the top stratum of his trade, is clearly in a different league from Goldberg. He marched into Prague with Patton and later served as foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. He is also a Democrat. Why did he become involved in so tawdry an episode...
...attractions of his performing troupe were 80 magnificent white stallions whose lineage traced back to Spain and Arabia and whose world-famous, high-stepping, dancelike routines dated back to the 16th century. Fearing their capture by the advancing Russians in 1945, Podhajsky asked for help from fellow Horseman George Patton, who dispatched a convoy of tanks into Czechoslovakia to escort 200 Lipizzan mares and foals to safety...