Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Powers) has 45 teams traveling through the countryside, doing the occupation's spadework, checking on its effectiveness and on Japanese compliance. But MacArthur himself does not travel. In nearly three years of occupation he has not missed a day, including Sundays, at his desk. Douglas MacArthur, brilliant soldier and administrator, great showman, benevolent dictator, steadfast egoist, is SCAP-although the initials as usually employed refer to the whole apparatus of the occupation...
...horse he is to ride have never met before. The trainer, who has a disillusioned parent's knowledge of the horse's habits and possibilities, gives the jockey a quick fillin, and tells him how to ride the race. Once on the track, the jockey has, like the soldier, the privilege of disregarding instructions and taking...
...flags, before Allied officers, in each provincial capital and sizable town. At the end of the parade route were placed several empty army trucks, and some spielers who continuously plugged the example of Garibaldi in discarding his gun and returning to the plow when his work as a soldier was done...
...World War II, Congress always gave Soldier George Marshall what he asked...
...never been greater than 4%; since 1940, never greater than 3%. In 1940 he called the turn within 3% (Roper was within 1%, Crossley within 4%); in 1944 within 1% of the civilian vote (Roper within less than 1% and Crossley within 2% of the combined civilian and soldier vote...