Word: maneuverable
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They heard Smith moving his furniture, tapping the floor, stomping about, vacuum cleaning, banging the garbage pail, shoveling coal at all hours of the day & night, digging after dark in a garden by the Masons' windows. As soon as he went out, his telephone began ringing. Then they began...
The amendment would further weaken already feeble ability to cooperate with other nations. The check and balance system, entrenches the executive in a welter of prohibitions. To make Senate approval a requisite for every diplomatic maneuver would immeasurably slow international agreement.
Emergency farm practices have included plowing crops under, drowning potatoes, and guaranteeing parity prices. Whatever the financial maneuver, it has artificially boosted farm prices at the expense of the food-buyer, the tax-payer, or both.
The University Administration stands indicted it seems to me, rather for the general approach to our financial plight than for any particular maneuver it has invented. Inflation has probably become perennial. Whether or not this is bad for the country at large it is obviously bad for endowed institutions. Therefore...
Before Genghis, the Mongols had fought helter-skelter; he taught them the art of maneuver, of charging and wheeling in units. Like Napoleon, he promoted officers to top rank on their merits, regardless of family lineage. Instead of enslaving captives, as was Asiatic custom, he absorbed them into his fighting...