Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mickey also became something of a leading citizen. He took up gracious living. He acquired an ample wardrobe, changed clothes several times a day, washed his hands several times an hour. The opening of his Sunset Strip haberdashery (pastel shirts and hand-painted ties featured) was graced by George
...strangers from other counties, cruised menacingly in cars, or shuffled through the small-town streets, but did no damage. Then, all of a sudden, they were roused again. A hundred shouting whites with rifles and pistols roared into tiny Mascotte in trucks, forced Guardsmen and police to withdraw and took over the community for the night...
...staff tells a story: "One night the general returned from a staff meeting to divisional headquarters with a strategic problem. He called me in with two other officers about dinnertime, asked our views on the problem, then told us to go back and put our ideas on paper. That took us till 3 in the morning. He read all the papers, said, 'Excellent, excellent,' then talked for 30 minutes tearing them to bits. Then he divided the problem into three parts, gave us each one part, and asked us to go back and write another memorandum. When...
When the end came, France's surrender government refused De Lattre permission to go to Britain, where he hoped to carry on the fight. In unoccupied France, he created the first of a series of officers' training schools. In 1942, when the Nazis took over unoccupied France, he marched his troops out for battle. When his Vichy superiors sent an order to remain in barracks, he went white with anger, tore the message to shreds. "Never will I receive the Germans at my headquarters," he shouted at the terrified orderly...
...smuggled him a small metal saw hidden in a bunch of flowers and a ten-yard rope wrapped in his laundry. He escaped, went underground and, hiding behind a freshly grown beard, made his way to London and Algiers, where he joined De Gaulle's Free French. He took over Army "B" (later the French First Army), landed it in the south of France and took it up the Rhone valley to the Rhine and the Danube. The First became proudly known as the "Rhine & Danube" Army. He crossed the Rhone on D-day plus 15, when the crossing...