Word: commandant
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...found a captain and a soldier in a jeep taking breakfast to an outpost of four soldiers five miles away. "I think," said the General, "he should have been inspecting his command and had that task accomplished by one of the cooks...
...tent at the command post, the general found the whole staff having an animated conversation while the radio, unheeded, gave essential information...
...defend Louis XVI from the revolutionary tribunal." In vain law schools have attempted to get army deferments for some of their students, on the grounds that lawyers hold many big jobs in the war effort (notable example: War Secretary Henry Stimson); a law course is good training for military command. Now most of them are resigned to making the best of a bad bargain, namely, small enrollments composed of women...
...fury of the German drive toward the vital military routes over the Caucasus mountains was unabated, indicating that the Nazi command had shifted the main weight of attack to that area...
...sector of the Nalchik plain massed German forces drove an armored spearhead into the Red Army positions, the Sunday midnight communique of the high command said, and "after bitter fighting the Soviet troops retreated to new positions, having caused heavy losses to the enemy...