Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean might be interested to know that no one has yet taken his newly won laurels seriously enough to fraternize in Sherman Hall in the manager he suggested; but if anyone does, we shall be glad to report the results and place the blame...
Walter Amory, Needham; Walter A. Bates, Wadsworth, Ohio; Wayne N. Beasley, Everett; William C. Brengle, New York City; Edward J. Browning, Norwich, Connecticut; Edmond A. Chastagner, New York City; Sherman H. Clark, Portland, Oregon; Richard J. Creedon, Fords, New Jersey; Charles R. Dean, Kalamazoo; Gerald R. Dennison, West Somerville...
Unlike some admirals, he had never gone to Pensacola in middle age to take a course in aviation which would qualify him to wear wings. But he listened attentively while his flying officers-"Bull" Halsey, Forrest ("Fuzz") Sherman, Frederick ("Ted") Sherman, Aubrey W. ("Jake") Fitch-argued the case of the carrier-cruiser task force. Nimitz was convinced. He sent Halsey out on the hit-run raids which buoyed the fleet's morale, and the nation's, early...
...expert staff which moved with Nimitz was at once the measure of his past achievement and a largely contributive cause of his continuing success. His chief of staff now is Sock McMorris, most noteworthy of the officers salvaged from Pearl Harbor. In charge of war plans is Fuzz Sherman, advocate of the fast task force after Pearl Harbor. But the boss of his staff is, as always, Nimitz, the fleet's human gyrocompass, always on the true plane, always on course for Tokyo...
Chuck Schrooder, who has about six months' supply of hair left, just checked and found, strangely enough, his new blues to be ill-fitting. "Sherman was right," says Chuck; "wonder if he got his uniforms the same place I got mine!" Sam Wolf learned the real meaning of "Penny Serenade" during one of his banquet pleas the other day. The Popps fright being a thing of the past, he failed to recover the cast-off cash, hence Stan Siskind's recent spending spree...