Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain-splashed Maryland hilltop last week stood a shivering band of Army generals, colonels, majors and news correspondents. Below them, spread over a sea of yellow muck, was an amazing spectacle. An M-4 (General Sherman) tank lumbered noisily through the mud, nosed down into a shell hole, up the other side, paused before the generals' hill, then roared away. At its heels came a lighter tank, a General Stuart, followed rank on rank by U.S. gun carriers, tanks, armored cars, combination gun & man carriers in seemingly endless variety, the newest and most formidable mechanized weapons of a nation...
...form in the basement of the church at 10:15, and the R.O.T.C. units in Hunt Hall at the same time. The procession will start shortly thereafter, led by President James Bryant Conant and Dr. Reginald Fitz, University Marshal. The governing boards, distinguished guests, including Governor Saltonstall, Major-General Sherman Miles, Admiral Wilson Brown, Mayor Corcoran, and Harvard officials, will form in the Isham Memorial Library and march to the church...
...bitters. Toyama's men were eating raw fish and seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...
...other men elected are Bernard Bisgeier, Fred N. Fishman, W. Leeds Frye, Barry Golomb, Thomas Land, Melvin Maddocks, John Ryan, Sherman Starr, John Shepley, A. Richard Solvie, and John Sonneland, who was appointed assistant chairman...
Author Rich's book is one of the most incongruous that ever became a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the middle of a world war. Its 322 pages do not have the slightest connection with totalitarian wickedness or the fire power of the General Sherman tank. The book is a pleasant, intelligent account of how it feels to live in a remote corner of the Maine woods...