Word: topkick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps (as Lieut. General George Patton had been at Gafsa and El Guettar, where it had been expected that tanks would be supreme) was Major General Omar N. Bradley, a top-notch infantry soldier. Tall, wiry and grey, General Bradley is as tough as his hardest topkick. He was an outstanding athlete at West Point. When a new 550-yard obstacle course was opened under his supervision at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, he personally tested its 14 hazards at top speed...
...E.D.S.T.) a booming salute from NBC. From Manhattan they will be greeted by their old commander, Major General Sanderford Jarman, by NBC President Niles Trammell, by Gertrude Lawrence, many another. Then from their own tiny stations, PCAN and PCAC, in the Canal Zone, their new topkick, Major General William E. Shedd, and Brigadier General Glen E. Edgerton, Governor of the Zone, will make reply...