Word: maneuverable
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The maneuver failed. Governor Talmadge challenged the regents' action on the ground that they lacked a quorum, vowed that the dismissed educators would never come back. Last week, despite a penitent appeal by the regents, the Southern Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools, official accrediting agency, decided to blacklist ten...
Nobody controls President Quezon, not even Quezon, say the Filipinos. They know. Sometimes they say it with exasperated affection, like Brooklyn people talking about the Dodgers. Sometimes they say it with gleeful malice, as they recount President Quezon's latest prankish maneuver against austere, high-minded Francis Sayre, U.S...
In this maneuver Marshal Timoshenko had used a familiar Nazi technique. He had allowed the enemy to advance until it overreached itself, had then struck. He had not, however, followed through with the complementary Nazi technique-encircling and annihilating the imprudent force. The Germans, though humiliated, were at liberty to...
Army camps in the South and Southwest. It was the opening maneuver in a crucial U.S. railroad campaign. The roads were preparing, on top of rush civilian passenger traffic, to move at least 500.000 soldiers on an average-800-mile trip home for Christmas-the greatest long-distance passenger movement...
On the technique of handling hecklers during the act, Miss Garcia says quite frankly that she "plays right up to them" to get them on her side. This is usually done by casually tossing the two flowers she wears in her hair into the audience when the occasion demands. This...