Word: vinegar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vinegar Joe" Stilwell the capture of Myitkyina was his second star in a week. Few days before Myitkyina fell, President Roosevelt nominated the 61-year-old veteran to be a full general. When the Senate confirms it, Stilwell will join a rank held by only five other Americans in active service...
...When "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell discovered how his orders had been misconstrued, he wept. But it was too late. The Marauders were through as a combat unit. Now that the story was out, Army men wondered what would be done. The answer was: very little. General Merrill, ill for months, had already been replaced by Brigadier General Theodore F. Wessels who (with a few original Marauders) was leading a Chinese outfit at Myitkyina. For most of the original Marauders there were only the Army's red bathrobes, gloomy hospital talk, rear-base doldrums. Only official action taken...
Pacific, with a gourmet's enthusiastic attention to detail, described a new dish called "millionaires' salad," - a culinary triumph consisting solely of palm hearts soaked in vinegar...
...Arcs. Four months ago "Vinegar Joe" started out from Ledo in India on the first lap of the campaign that few thought would succeed. He had about two divisions of American-trained Chinese and a group of American and Chinese guerrilla fighters led by Brigadier General Frank Merrill. As Stilwell fought his way southeast through rugged country and equally rugged Japanese, engineers followed close behind, building a macadam highway...
Mataguchi was commander of the Japanese legation guard at Peiping when Stilwell was U.S. military attache there. Joe Stilwell pressed hard on him now, hoped he would not slip out. Even if he did, Vinegar Joe had scored a real victory...