Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helping Patton during the Sicilian campaign in 1943, Wedemeyer, then a brigadier general, asked to be reduced to the rank of colonel so that he could take command of a regiment...
...Patton refused...
Lieut. Colonel Wilson Hawkins of Pascagoula, Miss., commanded the battalion from a grasshopper observation plane skimming overhead. The Pattons, each with a snarling tiger painted on the front, rumbled north out of a dry riverbed. Just short of Uijongbu, the column ran into trouble. Trying to bypass a tank trap, one Patton bogged down in a marshy field. Two more got stuck trying to pull it out. A fourth hit a mine; there was a deafening blast, a big puff of smoke and a cry over the radio: "Man wounded...
French opposition. Urged to flee, the Sultan of Morocco said then: "The Americans are my friends. I will greet them here." General George S. Patton gave the Sultan a jeep with chrome fenders which is still the pride of his 58-car garage. Two months later, the Sultan met Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some...
...school's students range from the sons of neighboring farmers to the son of the late General George S. Patton and the grandson of Elihu Root. Some parents pay as much as $6,000 a year; many pay almost nothing. Though 51% of boys get student aid, only a few staff men know who they are. All boys clean their rooms, wait on table, and tend the grounds...