Word: phalanxes
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...Democratic State chairmen came to town, bringing plums and whips. In Vichy the Government had delivered itself to Hitler that afternoon. The U.S. Government had just renewed a warning to Japan. But against the bill to keep the U.S. Army under arms for another 18 months stood an imposing phalanx of opponents. They included...
...billions for defense, radio last week dedicated a great deal of time and money for tribute. The occasion was the start of the tenth year of big-time broadcasting for silver-haired, jello-jowled Comedian Jack Benny, No.1 U.S. radio entertainer. The tribute, carefully prepared by a hard-working phalanx of publicists, was about the biggest thing of its kind radio had ever seen...
...Leader, had had a good night's sleep. Don Ramón, who had been a visitor in Berlin for nearly three weeks, had, as usual, very little to do. He took a stroll in the direction of the Chancellery and on the way he ran into a phalanx of plum-cheeked school children, each carrying three paper flags-German, Italian and Japanese. They were on their way to the Chancellery to welcome Italy's Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano...
...Many were the hybrids which defied precise definition. Example: the Trade Unions' Committee for Peace, which sent a phalanx of determined young women to Capitol Hill. Whatever else these pacific Amazons accomplished, they pungently reported on their interviews with politicos in travail: On Speaker Bankhead ("I said, 'Well, what about the conscription bill?' He said, 'I don't know anything about it. I haven't even read it'"); Henry Wallace ("He was very uneasy and begged us to excuse him"); G. O. P.'s Vice-Presidential Nominee Charles L. McNary ("He said...
Worse still for Weygand, it appeared that the success of the German Blitzkrieg was the result of a major military invention. There have been such inventions before (e.g., the Macedonian phalanx, the Roman Legion with its checkerboard maniple), and usually they have given their inventors military mastery for generations. Not merely tanks, not merely bombers, not merely greater concentrations of troops and materiel but a new military technique of using all these things together was the secret of German success...