Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Necessity was the mother of his gridiron inventiveness. Because Tech's academic standards were high, his squads correspondingly small, onetime Mathematics Professor William Anderson Alexander devised an intricate type of play that few but his apt engineers could have mastered. Ruddy-faced Coach Alex carried his chalk and blackboard to the half-time dressing rooms, substituted diagraming for tear-jerking pep talks. He said rousing up the boys produced mental instability...
...driven the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister [Mrs. Clement Attlee] out to die in the snow, or the Minister of Labor [Ernest Beyin] had kept the Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden] in exile for a great many years, or the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson] had shot at and wounded the Secretary of State for War [Sir James Grigg] or the head of one or the other of the spending departments - if we who sit here together had all backbitten and double-crossed each other while pretending to work together, if we had all put our own group...
...Tactical Air Command, headed by quiet, efficient Brigadier General Otto P. ("Opie") Weyland (rhymes with island) was Vandenberg's link to the battlefields of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. Vandenberg's bomber outfit was a whopper, headed by Brigadier General Samuel E. Anderson, whose Marauders and Havocs had played a big part in pushing the German airfields back from the Atlantic in advance of Dday...
...David Anderson: "By Christmas 1945, Europe will have enjoyed three months of complete peace...
Scolded Committee Chairman Clinton Anderson: "These appear to be dangerous adjustments . . . when you have secret polls and checks which come directly from the voters...