Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was nothing about the Eisenhower tradition to suggest this choice [of being a soldier]. In the dim past the Eisenhowers were Swiss...
...suggest that you publish the picture of General Yamashita as the man of 1942 on the basis of positive accomplishment, with the sincere hopes that he may have the "bad cess" which often comes to the winner of this award...
...time to time for unity of command. That's a loose term and has come to be widely used by people who don't have the full facts. Actually, many good officers are not qualified or competent to exercise unified command, but we keep on hearing amateurs suggest that some one man be called in to exercise sweeping control over all things military...
There was nothing about the Eisenhower tradition to suggest this choice. In a dim past the Eisenhowers were Swiss and the name was Eisenhauer. Ike's father and mother met at a small religious college in Kansas, married and raised their brood of boys. Mother Eisenhower still lives in the old white house in Abilene...
...British colonels from the Intelligence staff, with one tommy gun between them, found themselves on a sandy stretch of desert just east of Matrûh with one Italian general and 80 Italian officers pleading to be taken to a prisoners' camp. "The best thing I can suggest," one colonel said, "is for you to proceed to the Fuka railway station and take the train to Alexandria." They did. In another area German lorry drivers piled their trucks full of Italians and, without escort, drove them up the coast road to British rear bases...