Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the top French officers in Syria were reported pro-Vichy, the younger officers and lower ranks were believed pro-Free France. Just prior to the British jump-off, General Henri Dentz, the Syrian High Commissioner, was yelping to Vichy for loyal aviators and anti-aircraft crews: "Germans, if necessary." General Dentz has been wrathful about the British ever since he had to turn over Paris to the Germans last June...
There is no younger officer class in the world than that of the Generalissimo's crack divisions. Generalissimo Chiang is 53, Chen Cheng is 41, Chen's Field Chief of Staff is 34. It would be hard to find a divisional or regimental commander in those divisions over 40. Regimental colonels are sometimes in their...
Belle called her illegitimate child Pearl Younger. She left the child with her parents, went to Dallas where she performed in dance halls, made money dealing faro, bought fancy clothes and saddles...
Before and after Cole Younger was imprisoned for murder, she took on other lovers and husbands-some of them Cherokees-in droves...
...later years Belle ran a bandit headquarters at a place she called Younger's Bend, in Indian territory. Near there, in 1889, someone fired a load of buckshot into her back while she was riding. She was buried with her jewels and one of her precious pistols, which were afterward stolen by grave robbers...