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LeMay

[ luh-mey ]

noun

  1. Curtis (Emerson), 1906–90, U.S. Air Force officer: chief of the Strategic Air Command 1948–61; Chief of Staff of the Air Force 1961–65.


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LeMay, the more accomplished and visible of the two, rose to become Air Force chief of staff after commanding Strategic Air Command and leading the strategic bombing campaign against Japan in World War II. He was constantly at odds with McNamara, President John F. Kennedy and Joint Chiefs Chairman Maxwell Taylor over the Cuban missile crisis and the war in Vietnam.

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Walker and LeMay served as joint inspiration for the ideological Joint Chiefs chair depicted in the 1962 book and 1964 movie "Seven Days in May," who tries to engineer a coup against the president for negotiating a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.

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Gen. Edwin Walker and Air Force Gen. Curtis "Bombs Away" LeMay were cut from the same right-wing ideological cloth.

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The study, written by Ralph, Wright, Julia Pascutto, design director with Lemay x FLDWORK, a Canadian design firm; and Rebecca Pedrosa Martinez, a designer at Multistudio during the study, was published in the Journal of Interior Design.

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Liz Phair’s self-titled album received a zero from the critic Matt LeMay when it came out in 2003.

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