Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired and irritable because our greatest soldier [Montgomery] has been libelled and insulted by a scribbling American, Ralph Ingersoll, with little knowledge of military matters, to launch his best-seller [Top Secret]. . . . I also have holes in most of my shirts...
...Frenchmen might plump for the Red-inspired charter simply by default. Philippe Barrès, editor of Paris-Presse, put it this way: "What would worry me . . . would be the spectacle of a people so disillusioned as to adopt a new Constitution in the same way as a conscripted soldier arriving gloomily at the barracks accepts the first tunic which a sergeant tosses...
QuintanilLa turned soldier, conned books of military tactics by flashlight at night, and led Loyalist troops in the daytime. He earned the devotion of the doomed Republic by directing the attack on Madrid's Montana Barracks (which saved the city for a while). Between battles QuintanilLa the artist spread a hip-pocket sketchbook on his knee, crammed it with needle-sharp summations of democracy's clash with Fascism...
...custom began in Chile: there, at Army musters, a chosen soldier answers "here!" to the name of O'Higgins.* a brave & bygone hero of the republic. That seemed like a good idea to Texas A & M- which furnished more Army officers in World Wars I and II than did West Point...
...Sometimes there was discord ("After all, Allies are like families"): in November 1944, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery sent a letter suggesting that the Allied armies had suffered "a strategic reverse" and needed a "new plan"; this, says Butcher, "made Ike hot under the collar." Of the General Patton soldier-slapping, Butcher reports: "Ike is deeply concerned and has scarcely slept for several nights." One night at dinner Eisenhower was called to the phone. "We soon heard his voice saying, 'Brad, that's wonderful. . . . Sure, get right on across with everything you've got. ... To hell with...