Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Japanese soldiers in French Indo-China made ugly faces across the border at Thailand, the U.S. decided that Bangkok was no place for a noncareer diplomat, hastily picked one of the ablest (and homeliest) career men in its Far Eastern diplomatic service to replace the Alabama politico who has been U.S. Minister there since...
Some 30 members of the House of Commons are onetime coal miners; they know the labor problems of the mines firsthand. Among the ablest of them is Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan of Ebbw Vale (pronounced Ebba Vale...
...notable bows of the armed forces. Popular brigade commander in Fort Knox's Armored Force, he made his name with newsmen as head of Army's press section from 1935 to 1939. Then a lieutenant colonel, with pacifist critics his chief problem, newsmen rated him the ablest question-answerer ever to hold down...
Known as one of St. Louis' ablest attorneys, Hay is a big, heavy-set man with a black mustache, a good showman who loves "fightin' and speakin','' a classic corn-country orator who began making speeches at the age of eleven on the Ozark farm where he was born...
Around a nest of bridge tables in University of Michigan's plushy Rackham Building, 20 of the ablest educators of Europe and America gathered last week to sketch a brave new post-war world-a world in which education would play a role denied it at Versailles. Like certain famous beer-hall conferences conducted some 20 years ago, this conference had a leader-a tubby, broad-shouldered ex-German named Reinhold Schairer-and a conspiratorial air, but its ideology was far different. In the minds of the conferees the outlines of a new world order took definite shape...