Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here preparing to dish out a few choice tidbits about the famous Co. Baker, I am greatly harassed by a certain Nav Comm strategist who is eagerly slugging quarters into the telephone. He sure pays an awful lot to tell someone in Chicago that he loves her.... The great Tammany has crumbled! The one time omnipotent room is trying desperately to hold on. According to them they have one assistant squad leader, one muster sheet "collectorupper," and wehbring.... "Moonshine" Panky was quite surprised and chagrined upon finding out that he was giving blood and not getting it.... Attention Brother Rais...
General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, 51, reputed the "most aggressive soldier" in the British Army, the small, tough strategist who as British Middle East commander planned the westward rout of Rommel. As Eisenhower's chief deputy, Alexander would have direct command over all ground forces: the British Eighth Army (General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery), the British First Army (Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson), the U.S. Fifth Army (Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark), the French West African Army (General Henri Giraud...
Outside the opera house Basso Pinza looks like a prosperous retired bullfighter. He works over his roles as systematically as a strategist planning a campaign, ransacking Manhattan's libraries, boning up on history, costumes, manners. To make his Boris Godunoff fall dead with proper dignity, he practiced hurling his 191 lb. on to the Metropolitan's floor boards for hours, until he was so badly bruised he could hardly walk...
When the rocking-chair strategist, the political hamstringers and the Cal Tinneys were nasaling for a second front in Europe I didn't say, "The Russians will quit if we don't open up a second front in Europe!" Later, when the second front was opened up in North Africa, I didn't say, "I knew all along they was planning a second front in North Africa...
...mistake in taking his military training at the Virginia Military Institute and by spending his life since in the Army, instead of taking it in the Senate," shouted Alben Barkley. "But I am not going to substitute my experience as a United States Senator and as a military strategist and organizer within these four walls for the expert knowledge which he possesses...