Word: maneuverable
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It is clear, not only from this instance but many others similar to it, that the Pentagon has ways of circumnavigating policy pronouncements that it does not like. Just as the military could maneuver around President Nixon's abhorrence of biological warfare, so there are signs that even if the...
It is when they take to the field that Stram's Chiefs take on their true color. In an age when most college and pro coaches are emulating the bedrock approach popularized by Woody Hayes and Lombardi, Stram is an inveterate innovator who likes to "put a new wrinkle...
Mrs. Nixon paid no attention, and in an unprecedented maneuver hailed by budget-minded women the world over, wore the dress at least twice more in public, instead of handing it over straightaway to the Smithsonian Institution. Miss Treyz explained mildly: "The Nixons are middle-American people who don'...
But Curiev still needed the big move the impressive maneuver in order to qualify for deification. In July, 1947, as Boston's mayor again, he pulled it off.
Dayan's maneuver proved that Mrs. Meir still considers him a necessary component in her finely balanced Cabinet. Even so, Dayan emerged from the crisis with something less than total victory. Later that day, after Golda and Moshe returned to the Cabinet, which was still in session, the Ministers...