Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month the long-awaited showdown began. General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano whose radio broadcast was a nightly comic turn during the War, made a speech declaring that the Army, which had done the fighting, should also do the ruling-not gun-shy, upstart politicians (like Señor Serrano Suñer). The brash General was promptly removed from his command of the South. Also dismissed was Juan Yagüe, pudding-faced idol of the Moroccan corps. If the purge of Army malcontents had been completed it would have meant the expulsion of Rebel heroes like Generals Solchaga...
...century harness races have been started by a unique method called scoring: horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes ten or 15 scores are required before the starter considers that they have all gone over the line "on their gait" (without breaking stride)-with the "pole" (No. 1) horse nosing ahead. Many times seasoned drivers deliberately spoil the start in order to wear down less experienced drivers or the horse with the No. 1 position...
...this skullduggery was waste motion. At the first turn, Doc Parshall, driving the favorite, Peter Astra (2:02 ¼), whizzed by the field on the outside, saw his opening and took it. From then on it was just a breeze. Peter Astra finished the first heat* three lengths in front of second-place Gauntlet. The second heat was even more one-sided. Starting from the pole position because of his victory in the first heat, Peter Astra won by five lengths, took the Hambletonian Stake in two straight heats...
...Francisco Franco in 1936, General Gamelin was now doing the next best thing. He was inspecting the 250,000 interned Loyalist troops quartered in French concentration camps. If Generalissimo Franco should squeeze an attacked France from the south, Generalissimo Gamelin would undoubtedly arm his 250,000 Loyalist guests and turn them loose on their former enemies. Like most of his countrymen, Maurice Gamelin hopes this may never be necessary. But the terse little (5 ft. 4 in.) general has a terse little motto: "Optimism is a luxury...
...French have learned to like their generals best. Napoleons I and III had plenty of color but they did not pay off at the finish. In 1889 colorful General Boulanger came close to seizing the country. The colorful military cliques of the century's turn-on one' side the Catholics and reactionaries; on the other the Radical Socialists and Freemasons-gave France its Dreyfus case. Nowadays no French soldier votes and on the subject of politics the Army is known as la grande muette (the big dumb woman). Particularly in these times, France wants her soldiers mute...