Word: brainier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Charlie Wilson was literally surrounded with brainier men, men more cultured or more brilliant in most things than he. And, true, he came late enough to miss a great many of the terrible early defense-days problems that had strained and wrecked many a bigger reputation. Nevertheless, as some gardeners have "green thumbs," he had the know-how, the touch. Things work for him. In Washington, in the very heart of snafu and intrigue, the whole show fell into one long production line, about the time he came, and soon thereafter the production war was substantially won. The battles...