Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodson Barrett was little known. In Washington, where he served as head of the Division of Plans & Policies, his name was seldom on the guest lists of the society pages. But within the Corps he was known as a brilliant staff officer and field commander. Many thought him the ablest officer in the Marines...
...Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky, the captor of Yelnya. A husky, keen-faced, long-nosed man, he is one of the Red Army's ablest tacticians. His myaso-roobka (meat-grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...
...Last fortnight the Soviet Union set up a five-man committee to direct the rehabilitation of the regained soil; ordered the return of 571,500 head of evacuated cattle, horses, sheep. The committee's head is plump Georgi Malenkov, one of Stalin's ablest trouble shooters. Among the members is the professorial-looking Georgian, Lavrenti Beria, chief of NKVD (formerly OGPU...
...Jimmy Byrnes, who is now really the czar of all Washington czars, is one of the country's ablest politicians, in the better sense of the word. He is trusted by Congress and the President-and Mr. Roosevelt is expected to back Byrnes's decisions to the limit. This was never true with former top administrators...
...ship, a superbly handled ship, fortunate in her various commanders and in the high degree of teamwork achieved by her crew. One of her former captains is grey, smallish, soft-spoken Rear Admiral George D. Murray (now commandant at Pensacola), rated by officers who served with him as the ablest of carrier skippers...