Word: fractious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Staff. Over the years Omar Bradley, the man who never raised his voice, never mixed in service feuds, had won the solid admiration of everybody from plain soldiers (who called him the doughboys' general) to Government bureaucrats, to his fellow generals. The Third Army's brilliant, fractious George Patton, one of his subordinates, once told him: "Between my screwy ideas and your brains, we certainly come up with some wonderful plans...
...school, then partially town-supported, with its enrollment of 14 students. He taught every thing from Latin to math, coached athletics and served as town librarian on the side. The town soon learned that there was something different about the kindly young schoolmaster in the somber black suit. Fractious kids jumped to obey him; backward boys seemed to brighten. Even old Deacon Greenough was won over. He started coming over to dinner every Sunday night, bringing free bottles of Green-ough's Horseradish with...
...Soup. In Naboomspruit, Transvaal, Solomon Macheke got three months at hard labor (and five strokes of the lash) for biting the tail off a fractious...
...most Congressmen could at least go home feeling well satisfied with the fruits of their extra-session labors. They had made a jerky start toward tackling the fractious problem of U.S. inflation (see The Nation). Most important of all, they had completed the emergency task of providing U.S. dollars to fight hunger, cold and Communism abroad...
...atomic dragon's trainers are learning how to gentle him. They have a long way to go. The dragon is still too fractious to harness; his fiery breath is still deadly. But last week the trainers announced important progress; atomic energy may yet do more good than harm. Some day the dragon may be yoked to a plowshare...