Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shelley Smith Mydans, the Pacific's first gorgeous war correspondent, is here. . . . (She) cannot be summed up in a sentence, but a sentence can report that she's an able newspaperwoman who has been more places than a globetrotter, has had more adventures than a soldier of fortune, knows more about the Japs than most military commanders, and, at 29, is better to look at than 75% of the movie stars...
...debate rumbled on, Fulbright fished out the fact that the names had been rushed through the Foreign Relations Committee with hardly a moment's consideration. Had anyone considered sending a physicist? A soldier of World War II? "I am not attacking the character of these gentlemen," he explained. "[But] we assume our representatives are being sent [to London] with a purpose-not to be good fellows, not to discuss Montana or whatever Mr. Walker is familiar with . . . or the strawberry crop in Delaware...
...showed, Joseph Stalin was the most feared man of 1945. By his followers in every country he was also the most admired. But he did not dominate the year. And he ended it amidst rumors of ill health, amidst mounting speculation whether his successor would be Diplomat Molotov or Soldier Zhukov...
Twice George ("Old Blood & Guts") Patton had been stripped of his command. The first time was after a public furor in the U.S. over his slapping and abusing a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicilian hospital. (Technically, he remained head of the Seventh Army, but it was a phantom Army with no divisions.) For the old war horse, that was a bitter period. One day he visited Fifth Army headquarters before Cassino, borrowed Mark Clark's Packard, and in this conspicuous vehicle rode recklessly up to the front lines. When he could ride no farther...
...first the words sounded impudent, as when she thumbed her nose, in pungent book reviews, at literary lights like G. B. Shaw and H. G. Wells. The cleverness and impudence matured into eloquence and insight, and in criticism and novels (The Judge, The Return of the Soldier, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon), Rebecca West proved herself one of the most ardently articulate Englishwomen of her time...