Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, off to Briggs Cage and we'll all do Marine Corps push-ups and deep knee bends in unison. Guerre--as Sherman so aptly puts it--is a helluva way to spend your dawning hours...
Left Hook. On the eighth day Delattre's Sherman tanks raced past the 78-ft.-long red granite Lion of Belfort (symbolic of its unyielding French defense in 1870-71). They speared into Mulhouse, turned north toward Colmar along the Rhine...
...Green face soon--he's from Dartmouth. Hyde of Harvard, who did undergraduate work across the River, claims many laurels for the Boston womenfolk. Of course, he may be a bit on the biased side, but, as we Frenchmen say, "c'est la guerre." Yea, and then there is Sherman's oft-quoted remark, "war is Hell...
...Rebel" Smith tells his story of "Sherman's Retreat" through Georgia. "Why, it was another Dunquerque," says the man from the Deep South. When accused of being related to a carpet bagger, Smith was seen gathering his Confederate flag and picture of Robert E. Lee, and heading home...
...women, oh, the women," sighed Tobacco Salesman Joseph White across his counter on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue. "They are piling into this cigaret shortage like a Sherman tank. Will they take these peculiar brands? . . . They will not. Fifteen or 20 bags of tobacco for rolling your own I sell every day. It used to be two. . . . Always there were a few women, sure, who chewed a little in a ladylike way. And in private. Now you wouldn't believe it. They sidle in here, wait till the counter is clear of customers, then ask for 'a sweet...