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/məˈkɑɹθɝ/
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NOUN
- United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan (1880-1964)
How To Use MacArthur In A Sentence
- They ridiculed leaked U.S. plans to install a proconsul in the Douglas MacArthur mold, strutting around with a cob pipe and dictating orders to a humiliated people.
- They made clear that the US aimed to conquer the country and install a military proconsul - along the lines of General MacArthur's six and a half-year rule in Japan - before handing it over to a puppet government.
- Ellen MacArthur's bid to circumnavigate the globe in record time received a cruel setback when her mast was damaged.
- With the defeat of Japan, MacArthur became the virtual American proconsul in Tokyo, often ignoring instructions from Washington on occupation policy.
- Americans of a certain age will recall Douglas MacArthur's pithy aphorism: ‘There is no substitute for victory.’
- MacArthur happened to be a very, very smart guy who came along at the right time, but the yearning to mathematize ecology was already in the air. The Song of The Dodo
- IMHO, Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" supplanted "MacArthur Park" as the most dreadful pop song ever. Hillary's Campaign Song Originally Written For...Air Canada Ad
- Mr Macarthur, of Riverside Road, had his ticket overturned on the grounds that the wording was incorrect.
- A painter known for her cartoonish, three-dimensional canvases, she was awarded a MacArthur fellowship.
- This lash-up, especially with its unfortunate geographical proximity to MacArthur's forces, set out a dual challenge for Ghormley: coordination of his own land- and sea-based air forces and coordination between theater commands.
