Word: swaggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just twelve months ago, clothed in the tragic glory of Bataan, he had come down from the skies to take command of United Nations forces in the Southwest Pacific. Australia would never forget the sight of him, striding confidently in his washed-khaki jacket, gold-braided cap and bamboo swagger stick, lifting Aussie hopes. His coming changed the country. His year changed...
From Kasserine Pass, Major General Lloyd Fredendall's weary young U.S. infantrymen, artillerymen and tankmen had fled across the valley. They had lost their swagger. They had abandoned their dead and their good equipment along the muddy, bloody roads. They had been handicapped by a lack of motor vehicles. Some of them fought blindly in small, isolated groups. For all of them it had been a humiliating retreat. On their heels came the triumphant troops of the Axis, driving westward and northward in three columns. Foul weather held most of the Allied air forces ground-bound. There appeared...
Later Seabrook relapsed, turned the barn at his swagger Dutchess County home into a scientific "research" laboratory. With "research girls" for guinea pigs, Seabrook and his friends "evoked . . . 'gods' and 'devils,' " dabbled in witchcraft and clairvoyance. Once more Seabrook began to drink, was cured again by an impetuous girl who forced him to plunge his elbows into boiling water. This treatment shocked him back to reality, made him realize that "the only way to write a book is to apply the seat of the pants to the seat of a chair -and write it." Result...
...last day, the Army had one of its few important losses. East of Wake Island, a Flying Fortress went down at sea. With it went one of the Army Air Force's best commanders, 54-year-old Major General Clarence L. Tinker. With his yellow gloves, swagger stick and Osage Indian blood (one-eighth), General Tinker was a famed Air Force character. He could well remember the time, not very long ago, when the sea was reserved for warships and a few naval planes, and Army bombers were encouraged to keep away from the Navy's pond...
Wehrmacht officers learned months ago that their swagger Mercedés-Benz staff cars were death traps in occupied Russian territory: guerrilla snipers gave special attention to these chariots of the mighty. In dangerous territory Nazi officers prudently changed to the cramped obscurity of flivver Volkswagen. But Gestapo officials persisted in riding in the style to which they were accustomed...