Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jumped screaming over the side. Another, in demented fury before he died, tossed the one bucket of rain water overboard. They agreed to hold each body a day to make sure that death was real. By the third week only Kelly and another mess boy were left. When his sidekick gave up, Kelly waited 36 hours before he tossed him overboard. "After that," he said, "I laid down and tried to make myself comfortable, hoping that I could die without any more trouble." He was lying there waiting for death when the lifeboat muzzled into a small steamer. His open...
General Wavell's Deputy Supreme Commander-in other words his chief sidekick, his alter ego-was to be Major General George H. Brett, 55, Chief of the Air Corps of the U.S. Army. A good choice, certainly. He would assure the air arm of a hearing. An expert on supply, he would see to first things first: secure lines before tactical missions. Fresh from a tour which took in Egypt, Britain, India and Russia, he probably knew more about problems of Allied cooperation than any other U.S. officer. Grey-haired, dapper, popular, he has not let desk duties ground...
...bombing; he had smashed up some buildings, some airplanes. He had managed to grab a precarious foothold on a beach 260 miles from the center of Luzon's resistance. But the Army's Far Eastern Commander, lean, brilliant Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur, and his grizzled Navy sidekick, Admiral Tommy Hart, had been waiting with their knives...
...gave him a sidekick for executive matters, such as the supply of tanks, guns, water. This job fell to broad-shouldered, smooth, East-wise Lieut. General Sir Robert Hadden Haining, recently Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff, whose new title was one never before used in the British Army: Intendant General. It meant what it said-superintendent without the super...
SPILL THE JACKPOT - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). How to milk a slot machine is one of the valuable tips herein offered by Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, hired not to find a vanished bride. But they find her after the No. 1 Milker's sidekick is murdered...