Word: ramrodded
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...hard man to impress. In 1929 (when the Army was at one of its lowest points in men and money) George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel, the assistant commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Two majors impressed him there: plain, lanky Omar Bradley and ramrod-straight, studious Courtney Hodges. The three...
...Vice Admiral Brown, White House aides. A U.S. Air Forces band blared the Marseillaise and the Star Spangled Banner (an honor re served for heads of states, members of reigning royal families, and diplomats of ambassadorial rank, according to strict protocol). General de Gaulle's body clicked into ramrod attention, two stars gleaming just above the cuff-line of his saluting...
Last week General Emmons moved on again. Ramrod-stiff Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, fresh from the command of the infantry school at Fort Benning, took over the bustling Pacific Coast, now safe from Jap attack. Delos Emmons' new job was kept a secret. Airmen wondered whether the Army Air Forces was going to get capable, pernickety General Emmons back again...
Then they saw who it was. "De Gaulle! De Gaulle!"they stammered. One saluted with the wrong hand. The other stood rigid for a long moment, finally lunged into a ramrod salute...
There were four brothers then, Army men by predestination. Their father, Colonel Edward J. Timberlake, was a ramrod-straight soldier, Class of '93, who played for West Point in the first Army-Navy football game in 1890. On duty at West Point from 1919 to 1929, he proudly watched an unbroken succession of his sons passing through...