How To Use Macarthur In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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Ellen MacArthur's bid to circumnavigate the globe in record time received a cruel setback when her mast was damaged.
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With the defeat of Japan, MacArthur became the virtual American proconsul in Tokyo, often ignoring instructions from Washington on occupation policy.
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Americans of a certain age will recall Douglas MacArthur's pithy aphorism: ‘There is no substitute for victory.’
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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
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IMHO, Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" supplanted "MacArthur Park" as the most dreadful pop song ever.
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Mr Macarthur, of Riverside Road, had his ticket overturned on the grounds that the wording was incorrect.
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A painter known for her cartoonish, three-dimensional canvases, she was awarded a MacArthur fellowship.
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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.
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The gang had been feuding with the Mexican Mafia over who would collect the ‘rent,’ or rake-off of illegal profits from the hustlers near MacArthur Park who trafficked in fake papers for undocumented immigrants.
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Meanwhile, General MacArthur and his staff had been planning a counterstroke.
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From a cerebral, indomitable, and ultimately overconfident persona, MacArthur tipped into an unsoldierly emergency-man mode.
Magic and Mayhem
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The soloist was the 32-year-old Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz who has been specializing in playing the music of living composers, which got her a Macarthur Foundation "genius" award last year.
Classical Gas
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History reveals that 250,000 doughboys were eligible for the Purple Heart decoration as a result of Gen. MacArthur's decision.
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Macarthur Coal Ltd, raising the ante in the battle for the collier which is now at the centre of three takeover bids.
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‘We work because we never had unreal expectations of what the band was supposed to be doing,’ says MacArthur.
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I refer, of course, to Ellen MacArthur, the 24 year-old who has sailed single-handedly round the world, becoming in the process the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe on her tod.
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He had been sent on a mission to deliver a message to General Douglas MacArthur.
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Earlier in the conversation MacArthur discounted suggestions that Walt Butterworth would assume responsibility for dealing with a treaty.
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In recognition of his early work in physics and computing, Wolfram became in 1981 the youngest recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship.
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A sodality of soreheads under the black flag of the Underground Literary Alliance had no other apparent purpose than to complain at tentshows that Moody and his whitebread buddies, a circle-jerk of class entitlements with names like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, and David Foster Wallace, had gobbled up all the royalties and review space, all the MacArthur baubles and Guggenheim buzz in Bookie World.
In the Desert, Prime Time
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Macarthur's flocks were based on Spanish merinos and the term pure merino became a metaphor for colonial aristocracy.
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Though the two made a point of being cordial to each other after World War I, Donovan confided to Putzell that he always resented MacArthur being so slow to protect his right flank from the murderous enfilade at Landres-et-Saint-Georges.
Wild Bill Donovan
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For the first five weeks MacArthur averaged 5.54 hours sleep a day; for the past 10 days she's been down to less than four, though she has been taught techniques to help her catnap by Claudio Stampi, a ‘chronobiologist’.
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As Time put it, neither the president, the State Department, nor the Pentagon knew anything about the trip until they looked in their newspapers and read of diplomatic gallantries between MacArthur and Mme.
The Last Empress
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The story is not only sexist but sizeist, the fact that MacArthur is 5ft 2in and 7st, as well as female, is what makes the story so vivid.
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MacArthur was spurred on by a strong sense of destiny and ambition.
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It has been Mr. MacArthur's invariable practice to keep the Spanish Breed apart from all others, and as fast as Spanish Rams have been reared they have been put among the coarse-woolled Ewes.
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MacArthur's friends were very welcoming and the group of us conducted a conversation -- which often had to be shouted above the loud music -- in "Franglais" (French and English mixed) throughout the evening.
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Agreeing with MacArthur's reasoning, the war department earmarked some of its most modern weapons and planes for the Philippines.
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But Inchon also had some features that convinced MacArthur that the prize was worth the risk.
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Though MacArthur forbade air attacks against the city (which had been his home for much of his adult life) heavy artillery barrages by both sides levelled much of what the fires had left standing.
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A relieved MacArthur, who had suffered an hour of doubt following an early misreport of failure, informed Washington that ‘the whole operation is proceeding on schedule’.
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The aerodrome, three miles southeast of Long Island MacArthur Airport, is a nontowered field with a single, 150-foot-wide by 2,740-foot-long grass/turf runway (18-36) and 45 based single-engine aircraft.
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With a faceoff to the right of Miller, Sundin cleanly beat Buffalo's Clarke MacArthur, drawing the puck back to McCabe 10 feet inside the blueline in the middle of the ice.
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Army ranger Lt. Colonel Mucci stars as a young officer handpicked by MacArthur to lead the raid.
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MacArthur was Supreme Commander for the allied powers in the Pacific.
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It may beggar the agrestical among us; but, at the risk of sounding elitist, RN rescues himself from utter contemptuous caliginosity when he discusses the pair of genius recipients of the prestigious Macarthur Fellowships.
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The board believes that, on the basis of the terms outlined in the indicative proposal, it is not in the best interests of shareholders in its current form," Macarthur said.
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MacArthur examined the fist-sized links and followed the converging and diverging catenaries of the support cables as they swooped down from the cliffs on either side of the river.
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But she has garnered her MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship, two concurrent academic chairs, and occasional movie roles, which should keep her solvent while she diddles away.
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Earlier in the conversation MacArthur discounted suggestions that Walt Butterworth would assume responsibility for dealing with a treaty.
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Specialty dealers David Margolis and Jean Moss from Santa Fe, NM, specialists in ephemera, photography, and fine books; and, Terry Belanger, 2005 MacArthur Fellow, and founder of Rare Book School, University of Virginia.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it ( Douglas MacArthur ).
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Dr. Erik Demaine, who won the MacArthur "Genius" Grant for his work in computational origami.
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As in his biography of Macarthur, the Aborigines are incidental, minor problems for his hero to overcome.
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‘They are patterns of behaviour or patterns of decorum that we all have,’ says MacArthur.
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By this formula MacArthur could pick the time and place of battle, using air and naval forces to protect his flanks while concentrating combat power for the next thrust.
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It was redesignated the 165th and became part of the 42nd Division with an up-and-coming regular Army major named Douglas MacArthur as its chief of staff.
Wild Bill Donovan
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MacArthur stated that it was imperative to prevent the dispatch of an amphibious force.
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Since the days of Macarthur there has been a bunyip aristocracy in Australia that has been offended by the idea of having to pay to acquire labour.
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Her mode of expression is a disarmingly clear and accessible style, characterized by concision, rhyme, wordplay and wit," concluded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which each year chooses winners through a secretive process and does not accept nominations.
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His interest continued at Cornell University, where he majored in physics and wrote what he calls his equivalent of a MacArthur "genius" grant: the words to what would become the popular Peter, Paul and Mary song, "Puff the Magic Dragon.
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The Wellesley Network lives: Hillary's classmate Janice Piercy recently left her post with the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago to codirect the Clinton transition team's talent search.
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MacArthur staged a massive amphibious landing behind enemy lines
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Thanks to Inchon, MacArthur, a general who always put himself above the normal chain of command, was at the pinnacle of his success.
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MacArthur meanwhile landed safely in Melbourne, taking with him on the PT-41 “his wife, his child, two Chinese amahs, and several trunks of personal belongings.”
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And one correspondent last week was recommending the herb arnica for her bruises - as though MacArthur could pop out to a chemist and get some.
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The video snippets were excellent, including a lovely one of Simon Schama buying a house from an unsuspecting estate agent, and round-the-world yachtswoman Ellen Macarthur cleaning her house...
Cat and Girl hit the spot...
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What Ellen MacArthur did is, to my mind, one big yawn.
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Truman and MacArthur met at Wake Island in the Pacific.
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I went back to the Philippines with MacArthur on his final journey there in 1961, what he called his sentimental journey.
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
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The remarkable Macarthur describes how she became the fastest yachtswoman to circumnavigate the world.
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Had Jerod really demanded that Dennis MacArthur make restitution for getting carried away teasing me - by taking me out to dinner?
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MacArthur was Supreme Commander for the allied powers in the Pacific.
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La Fornarina," the renowned art historian and MacArthur fellow Leo Steinberg explains, "is the closest thing to soft porn in the high Renaissance.
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Among the participants: dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno, photographer Frans Lanting, environmental activist Majora Carter (a MacArthur Foundation winner), oceanographer Dave Gallo and futurist/hacker Pablos Holman.
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Rabaul was crossed off the list of invasion targets; its neutralization by air was to be completed by May 1944, followed by MacArthur's westward advance towards the Vogelkop peninsula of New Guinea.
