Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place in history as General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther. As NATO's first Supreme Commander in Europe (SACEUR), Eisenhower and his towering prestige rallied and heartened Europe's terrified nations and gave them confidence that the thing could be done. His successor, General Matthew Ridgway, was a blunt soldier who demanded more troops than the Europeans were willing to supply, stepped on many toes, and left no happy memories. In a time of peace-mongering, Gruenther has inherited the demanding and delicate...
Europeans expect few soldiers to understand that domestic politics are realities to be dealt with and not exasperations to be bulldozed out of the way, that troops in the field are useless unless supported by a sound economy at home, that the cold war could be lost by subversion in the factories as well as by defeat at the front. Gruenther not only understands, but often startles ministers by reciting production figures of their own countries that they do not know themselves, amazes politicians by quoting election figures down to the tenth of a percentage point. As a result...
Drafted in 1939, Winter fought in Poland, later in Russia. He kept his talent alive by filling his soldier's sketchbook with nearly 500 postcard-sized abstractions, which he regularly mailed home to his wife. Later, he spent five years a Siberian labor camp, where he kept on sketching...
...makes sense to the world in January 1956? "Does it act?" and ''Does it present to the world an idea of order?" Few would doubt that you have asked the right questions, but who is qualified to answer? A politician? Soldier? Industrialist? Farmer? Labor Leader? Professor? Rabble-rouser...
...pictures, where she introduced such songs as Sing, You Sinners and If I Could Be with You-Lillian tried at first to find herself in love. David died. One night she went looking for herself in a bottle. Next morning she woke up in a hotel room with a soldier. To make matters worse, they were married. They stayed married until the novelty wore off, and then they just stayed drunk...