Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats' last anguished wail. If he had not comprehended it before, Eisenhower may finally have understood the role they wanted him to play. At week's end he answered them in a soldier's blunt language. He asked to be spared the "acute embarrassment" of any further moves on his behalf. He said what he might have said months ago; "No matter under what terms, conditions or premises a proposal might be couched, I would refuse to accept the nomination." That, finally, ended...
Lord George Germain. Disgraced as a British soldier for refusing to lead his forces into action against the French, he was court-martialed, branded as a coward, cut in society, but rose to colonial secretary as "the most implacable enemy of the American colonists," demanded unconditional surrender, and excelled at jeering at the cowardice of Americans...
Comrade Molotov, the Mayor of Broadway, was the kind of soldier who could make an officer jump up & down with rage and then pin a medal on him. There was hardly a dogface in the 9th Division who didn't know him or hadn't heard of him. Few knew that he got his mail addressed to Pvt. Karl C. Warner. None knew that his real name was Karl Petusky...
Last winter a chunky, cheerful man toured Palestine in an open convertible. He looked at the limestone hills and green settlements with a soldier's eye. This hilltop, he would say, should be fortified; that gully would be ideal for a withdrawal if necessary. To strangers he was introduced as "Mr. Stone." His real name was David ("Mickey") Marcus, late of West Point, New York City and the U.S. Army...
Forty-seven-year-old Mickey Marcus had done well as soldier and lawyer. After the military academy and a spell with the regulars, he studied law, became a gang-busting assistant U.S. district attorney in Manhattan, later commissioner of correction in charge of New York City prisons...