Word: ablest
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Eric Ambler, one of England's ablest writers of thrillers (Journey into Fear) and movie scripts (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), evades the answers to these questions quite as skillfully as Novelist Hammond Innes did in the 1956 bestseller on which this film is based, and the result is a sloshing good scupperful of salt water and suspense. Director Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson has kept the story going full ahead, and has wrung a remarkable amount of histrionic blood from one of cinema's best-known stones, the face of Gary Cooper...
...capital. A Democratic Representative who has clashed with him on economic policies freely concedes that he is a "very great American." A fellow Cabinet officer whose department has felt the paining pinch of Anderson's insistence on balanced budgets calls him "one of the very ablest men in public life during the past 20 years." Adds another Cabinet member: "In this Washington scramble, the most refined form of cannibalism ever devised, it's just about impossible to find anybody who has anything nasty to say about Bob Anderson." Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, White House economic adviser from...
...over the Iron Curtain, and, at the same time, as a soothing agent for West Germany's indomitable old (83) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. President Eisenhower's first choice to succeed retiring Ambassador David K. E. Bruce was Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, the U.S.'s ablest diplomatic troubleshooter; Murphy bowed out in favor of retirement after 38 years in the Foreign Service (TIME, Nov. 9). Last week the President selected Walter C. Dowling, another veteran (27 years) career diplomat...
John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison. He had a murderous temper, the morals of a tomcat and a colossal ego, but he could fight a ship. A biography of the great naval hero by the ablest living chronicler of U.S. sailormen...
...your issue of July 13, you inferred that I was engaging in a revolt against the leadership of Lyndon Johnson. That was not how I felt about it. He is the ablest majority leader in the history of the Senate. Don't blame me because I tried to persuade Johnson to do things my way. He persuades me to do them his way often enough...