Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff, hearing that laugh, knew that Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., after 37 years of soldiering, was content with his first taste of major battle. Until now, fate had teased him. He had learned to fly in World War I, then had been denied overseas service. At the start of World War II, commanding in Alaska, he was sitting in a strategic hot spot, seemingly destined for speedy, decisive action; but the war, lightly singeing his area, had swirled southward, leaving him in the quiet northern shadows...
Preliminary landings were made on several tiny islands west of Okinawa-in the Kerama Rhetto, and, the Japs said, also on Mae, Kamiyama. Then, at 8:30 on Easter Sunday morning, the Okinawa invasion was launched. After a ferocious preparatory bombardment, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. sent the seasoned troops of his new Tenth Army swarming ashore. Marines and soldiers fought side by side in this army, as they had in World War I's famed 2nd Division. Comprising the army were Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Army Corps and Major General Roy S. Geiger...
VICTORIA THROUGH THE LOOKINGGLASS: The Life of Lewis Carroll-Florence Becker Lennon - Simon & Schuster...
CARRIER WAR-Lieut. Oliver Jensen, U.S.N.R.-Simon & Schuster ($2.50) and Pocket Books...
...what he could do about the situation, Lieut. Colonel Simon P. Dunkle of Selective Service headquarters went to Germfask. He admitted there was little that could be done, without a new law. At week's end, while a few better-behaved C.O.s tried to do all the camp chores, the Tobacco Road Gang lolled on their bunks...