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told and General
Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.
You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.
Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.
But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.
A ( perhaps apocryphal ) story is sometimes told of Beatty's retirement, that he canvassed in uniform in support of Conservative candidates in dockyard constituencies, presumably in the 1929 or 1931 General Elections.
Attorney General Qoriniasi Bale told the Lau Provincial Council that the government had a team of experts preparing a case to be taken to the United Nations International Seabed Authority, which is based in Jamaica.
The reef has also been claimed by Tonga since 1972, and Tonga's Surveyor General, Tevita Malolo, told Radio New Zealand that Fiji had never contested Tonga's claim until now.
During his first meeting with General Marshall, Capra was told his mission:
On 4 December 1941, the Japanese Ambassador General Hiroshi Ōshima told Ribbentrop that Japan was on the verge of war with the United States, which led to Ribbentrop promising him on behalf of Hitler that Germany would join the war against the Americans.
Bushnell told Alcorn that he had a contract with General Electric for a product, and asked Alcorn to create a simple game with one moving spot, two paddles, and digits for score keeping.
" Santos later told Al Jazeera that peace was possible if there was " goodwill " on both sides .< Ref > http :// www. aljazeera. com / news / americas / 2012 / 09 / 20129816352348815. html </ ref > Santos told the General debate of the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly on 26 September, that Venezuela and Chile were also helping in the discussion along with Cuba and Norway .< Ref > http :// gadebate. un. org / 67 / colombia </ ref >
The Doctors and General Hospital, in the beginning, told stories almost exclusively from inside the confines of a hospital.
He told his Secretary of War, General Henry Dearborn ( Indian affairs were then under the War Department ): " if we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down until that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi.
When urgent telegrams from Republicans begged for Army help to put down the violence by paramilitary groups at election time, he told his Attorney General that, " the whole public is tired of these annual autumnal outbreaks in the South ," insisting that state militias should handle the problems, not the Army.
In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would " on a certain day … rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop.
In a meeting with the Estates General in November, the French King Phillip was told that in the recent war efforts they had " lost all and gained nothing.
Luke was the first Duke to perform the " hood slide " across The General Lee, which is seen in the opening credits of the show ( a shot taken from the second episode, " Daisy's Song ") and later told by Tom Wopat to be an accident because his foot got caught on the side of the General Lee when he attempted to jump across the hood ; he also caught his thigh on the hood's radio antenna, cutting himself, resulting in such antennas being removed from later versions of the General Lee.

told and Abel
I told Moore I was going to eat, get some forms filled out by Doc Abel.
One character at Morpheus ' wake, perplexed by the question of who exactly has died, is told by Abel that the purpose of the wake is to mourn " a p-p-point of view.
Their childhood, and all the incidents and people who affected them, are portrayed in a similar manner as their fathers ' lives were told in Kane and Abel.
When their parents are told, both sets naturally react explosively ; Abel goes so far as to slap the daughter he had raised with great affection.
Abel, who was injured in a vain attempt to fight off Baramos is revived by his friend Moco and the village elder who gives him the blue stone, which he is told has the power to seal the dragon if it is woken.

told and commander
These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.
Rather than receiving an explicit order, a commander would be told of his superior's intent and the role which his unit was to fill in this concept.
He told his commander in Korea: " Don't let my soldiers become spirits in a foreign land.
* August 10 – Russian Revolution: The British commander in Archangel is told to help the White Russians.
At midnight General Dietrich Kraiss, commander of the 352nd division, reporting the total loss of men and equipment in the coastal positions, advised that he had sufficient forces to contain the Americans on D + 1 but that he would need reinforcements thereafter, only to be told that there were no more reserves available.
* In 1945 when the Japanese colonel in charge of the Hue garrison told Bảo Đại that he had ( in line with the orders of the Allied commander ) taken measures ensuring the security of the Imperial Palace and those within it against a possible Việt Minh coup, Bảo Đại dismissed the protection declaring " I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
Even Cesare Maria De Vecchi, commander of the Blackshirts, and one of the organisers of the March on Rome, told Mussolini that he would not act against the wishes of the monarch.
On the brink of death, David told Solomon to have Joab killed citing Joab's past betrayals and the blood that he was guilty of, and for this Solomon ordered his death by the hand of Benaiah ( 1 Kings 2: 29-34 ), who then replaced him as commander of the army.
A location for Antaeus somewhere beyond the Maghreb might be quite flexible in longitude: when the Roman commander Quintus Sertorius crossed from Hispania to North Africa, he was told by the residents of Tingis ( Tangier ), far to the west of Libya, that the gigantic remains of Antaeus would be found within a certain tumulus ; digging it open, his men found giant bones ; closing the site, Sertorius made propitiatory offerings and " helped to magnify the tomb's reputation ".
Once they were captured by him, and Captain America was placed under Nazi control by a drug and told to assassinate the supreme commander of the Allied armies in Europe, but thanks to Bucky he broke free.
The War of Jenkins ' Ear ( named for a 1731 incident in which a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of English merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, George II ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to the Caribbean Sea and conflict between Spanish Florida and the neighboring British Province of Georgia.
Whiting personally arrived at the fort and told the commander: " Lamb my boy, I have come to share your fate.
Her commander, Captain Julio León Fandiño, had Jenkins bound to a mast, then sliced off one of his ears with his sword and told him to say to his King " same will happen to him ( the king ) if caught doing the same ".
His confidence was not reinforced when the mission was scaled back by last-minute orders and advice from his commander, Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, who told him not to " stick his neck out ".
In January 1957 the ATC commander told the Air Force chief of staff that the only way ATC could continue to operate the school was if the Air Force would agree to provide first-line aircraft on a timely basis.
Spruance's fast carrier commander, Marc Mitscher, told his chief of staff Arleigh Burke that:
French recommended Robertson as his successor and Kitchener told Esher ( 4 December ) that the government intended to appoint Robertson Commander-in-Chief, but General Sir Douglas Haig, Robertson's senior and a front line commander since the start of the war, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the BEF in December 1915.
" Cartagena, who was offered immunity for his testimony, added that several hours before the shooting, he and other officers were told by Col. Angel Perez Casillas, commander of the Intelligence Division, that “ these terrorists should not come down ( from the mountain ) alive .” His testimony was corroborated by officer Carmelo Cruz who, although he did not witness the fatal shooting, confirmed many details provided by Cartagena when also granted immunity.
Whitfeld, the battalion commander had told these mukhtars that if any of this sort of thing happened he would take punitive measures against the nearest village to the scene of the mine.
The action, which took effect immediately, follows from earlier peace talks and the destruction of 840 weapons by international observers, Free Aceh movement commander Sofyan Daud told reporters, " The Aceh national army is now part of civil society, and will work to make the peace deal a success.
Eisenhower confirmed through Major General Omar N. Bradley and others that Fredendall ′ s subordinates had no confidence in him as their commander ; British General Harold Alexander diplomatically told U. S. commanders, " I'm sure you must have better men than that ".
While resting at the Malaysian capital, the commander told a group of reporters that “ there has been absolutely no trace of Thompson ’ s whereabouts .” “ Thompson ,” he reasoned,has knowledge of jungle survival.
The Japanese army commander in Kedah who remained in his headquarters told Malay leaders who went to consult him that he saw no reason to interfere in the internal affairs of the State.
Captain Burr told the commander that British troops were on their way to Penang by sea and would be arriving very soon.

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