Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, President-elect Arévalo, a realist, had sent a mission to Washington in search of the Lend-Lease arms reported to have been promised to his predecessor. Dictator Federico Ponce. The mission, which traveled by plane, was surrounded by as many cloud banks of secrecy as a Big Three meeting. Some members swooped out of the clouds long enough to be recognized in Chicago. Others, supposed to be in Washington, had gone officially underground...
...Hochih were still overextended; that although they might hold there indefinitely, it would be some time before they could resume the drive into Free China. Chungking's new War Minister, lean, smooth General Chen Cheng, and American officers, with whom he was on better terms than his predecessor, strove to wring every possible advantage from the frosty breathing spell...
...some reason Tokyo had summoned Okamura from north China, after an upstairs kick for his predecessor, Field Marshal Shunroku Hata. Best guesses why: 1) the advance was now approaching the Kuang-si mountain ranges, where Okamura would feel at home; 2) Hata's campaign, despite its success, was behind schedule...
...Congress will be shy a few of its predecessor's most flamboyant citizens (Ham Fish, "Cotton Ed" Smith, Gerald Nye, etc.). But it will have its own intriguing collection of new faces. Among them...
Limited as it was, the surge forward marked the arrival of the new Eighth Army commander, severe, demanding Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery, by reputation a more daring operator than his predecessor. Lieut. General Sir Oliver W. H. Leese. McCreery, a good friend of the Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark (they even sign their official correspondence "Dick" and "Mark"), will probably enforce closer cooperation with the Fifth...