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Skillful Wilson. In the end, Healey, who has earned the sobriquet of "the Iron Chancellor," did not get everything he wanted, but considerably more than he had a right to expect. As one Tory M.P. conceded, "The rats have got at it [the government's proposal] much less than expected...
...brave "soldier's soldier" in the campaign he led in the 1950s against the notorious Binh Xuyen bandits, a kind of Vietnamese Cosa Nostra (also known as the "whorehouse gang") that pillaged the countryside and controlled vice in Saigon. Blunt, athletic and honest, he was given the sobriquet "Big" by U.S. military advisers because he was unusually large for a Vietnamese-nearly 6 ft. tall and 200 Ibs. Minh impressed Diem and in 1958 was appointed the first boss of a field-operations command that coordinated the mounting war against the Viet Cong guerrillas. While in this post, Minh...
...kept on fighting -and losing. After a surprise victory in 1934, he disposed of three strong contenders for the heavyweight crown and earned a shot at Champion Max Baer's title. Braddock skillfully outboxed Baer for 15 rounds, winning a unanimous decision and Damon Runyon's sobriquet "the Cinderella...
...rebuffed at city hall, they milled about the building, brandishing boards and iron bars, until carabinieri in riot gear drove them off. In the 19th century square where they jostled, the hero ic bronze statue of the "Green Count" of Savoy (a 14th century nobleman named Amadeo VI, whose sobriquet derives from his inevitable green jousting costume) had been draped with a new red flag. Beneath the statue of the count, a blonde girl frugged incongruously on the pedestal as the fighting rolled...
...over the years and served as consultant to the governments of Mexico, Japan and Yugoslavia. His pet project was the early agricultural development of Israel, where his suggestion that water from the Jordan River be diverted to irrigate the desert was finally implemented in 1964 and earned him the sobriquet "Father of the Israel Water Plan...