Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statistics division. Tall (6 ft. 1 1/2 in.), husky (some 200 lb.), black-haired Bob Nathan worked his way through University of Pennsylvania as a tutor, reporter, Real Silk stocking salesman, got into defense work via the Department of Commerce and National Resources Planning Board. No armchair thinker, he was an all-out expansionist even in the early days of defense; helped get the "Victory Program" adopted. Even Old Dealers think him one of the best young Government career...
Professor Morison points out in his preface that most preceding works on the Admiral could be entitled "Columbus to the Water's Edge." They have been written by "indoor geographers and armchair admirals" who knew nothing of the pleasures and hazards of ocean travel. It was for this reason that Professor Morison took time out from his College work to lead his "Harvard Columbus Expedition" under much the same conditions as those which Columbus himself experienced...
Fresh German troops were reported moving last week toward the Russian front, where Adolf Hitler was trying desperately to regain the initiative. The fact that Hitler had lost the initiative in Russia led many a cozy armchair strategist to forget that on most other actual or potential fronts the initiative was Hitler's or Japan...
...armchair strategists might debate until their rockers broke about the subtle pros & cons of Sir Archibald's generalship in the Middle East last year: whether he was too cautious, or too slow, or too orthodox (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). But to the men and women, both in Britain and the U.S., to whom the war was more a worry than an avocation, Archie Wavell was still the best damn general on our side. MacArthur (TIME, Dec. 29, and see p. 19) was right up there, but he had his hands full. Unquestionably Wavell was the best choice...
...need is a projector and a little extra cash and you can spend the night watching the war in China, the battle for Europe, Roosevelt's third inauguration, or savage beasts in Darkest Africa--all from a comfortable armchair...