Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except the noncommittal printing on the currency (TIME, June 19). But to the Gaullists, the main issue was not the currency itself, however dubious its worth. It was simply that no U.S. or British authority had any business floating currency in France. That, said the Gaullists, was solely the function of Frenchmen. When the Allied command supplied its soldiers with non-French "francs," the whole principle of French sovereignty was imperiled...
...Tenth and Fourteenth Armies were still in one piece. But they had been fearfully cut up. Since the drive began on May 11 they had had around 60,000 casualties; more than 20,000 had been captured; at least five of their 18 divisions had ceased to function...
...very much, there was no comfort in his dictum for the Germans who faced Alexander. In Italy, Alexander was certainly commanding allies, but in Egypt he had successfully managed an even more polyglot and rainbow-hued aggregation. He had learned how to get air, naval and ground commanders to function smoothly together. His was no divided command. He was the boss...
...were greater than anyone had hoped. By week's end the Allies had taken 6,000 Axis prisoners. Considering the proved military quality of the German outfits, it was a fat bag, indicated that some divisions may have been shot apart so badly that they could no longer function as units...
...same approach is being used tonight and over 200 couples are expected to gape and admire. '47's only class function will also be the biggest all-Harvard function this year, but otherwise it remains another good old Jubilee, carrying on a quarter century of tradition