Word: technician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complicated deceptive tactics of the coastal campaign he needed more good soldiers than George Kenney and his airmen, and he had them. Most important of all was Dick Sutherland, a lean, bronzed, cool precisionist and a laboratory technician in the science of war. Sutherland knew how to translate MacArthur's sweeping plans into detailed operations schedules. For some of the moves in the campaign they made a six-inch-thick volume. In many an advance they refuted Moltke's dictum that no battle can be fought according to plan after the first few minutes. MacArthur-Sutherland battles were...
Governor of New York. He was elected governor of New York in 1918. By now he was a shrewd, blunt, humorous campaigner, with an unequaled knowledge of the state's affairs. He was also a great legislative technician with an uncanny ability to rasp out simple, pointed explanations of complicated governmental problems. He battled for slum clearance, set up children's courts, got additional millions for teachers' salaries. He wanted people to enjoy themselves-he took the ban off Sunday baseball...
...prolong penicillin's stay in the blood, Army Captain Monroe James Romansky and Technician (4th Grade) George E. Rittman suspend the drug in a mixture of beeswax and peanut oil and inject it into a muscle. They find that the suspension maintains a good level in the blood for six or seven hours after injection and keeps appearing in the urine up to 32 hours. The drug is extracted from the urine with banana oil, from the banana oil with a special phosphate solution...
...Redoubtable Warrior." Arthur Coningham is over six feet tall, and built to scale. Sleek, urbane, convivial, popular, he does not smoke, drinks practically nothing (an occasional sherry, gin-&-bitters or small whiskey with meals). Win ston Churchill once referred to him as "no mere technician but a redoubtable warrior...
...plant construction and speeded up the synthetic program. To help him, Rubber Boss Dewey had a good team: Plant Construction Chief William E. O'Brien and a staff of 35 crack engineers; U.S. Rubber's Lucius D. Tompkins, operations chief; Firestone's E. B. Babcock, top technician; and M.I.T.'s Professor Edwin Richard Gilliland, research director...